Almost a quarter of a century ago – it seems like only yesterday – I enjoyed a conversation with Joe Zawinul after a ...
The Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions Vol. 2 (Candid Records CAN3346) Since 1991, the Mingus Big Band, formed as an ...
The Bronx-born singer who made her debut on UK label Whirlwind talks about her new album Portrait - the first she has been ...
The Gibson Johnny Smith that guitarist George Benson used to record his 1976 hit album Breezin’ (sales around three million) ...
One of the last survivors of the golden age of bebop – the 1950s – tenor saxophonist and composer Benny Golson died on ...
Stormy weather and turbulent seas lashed South Bay’s Victorian coastal spa on the first day of the 21st Scarborough Jazz Festival. It was held from 27 to 29 September – luckily, the remainder of the ...
Until she died, in January 1918, I had no problem thinking of Marlene VerPlanck as the finest female vocalist currently ...
BBC Sessions 1968-1970 (RANDB101) Once again, Nick Duckett’s RandB Records mines the rich vein of material from the BBC ...
The Rhodes electric piano, reviled by many purists, but a key new sound in jazz from the late 1960s on, is the centre of ...