This month’s arrivals on my doorstep included two drum-led releases. Previously issued on Mainstream (MDCD715), Roy Haynes’ ...

Having over the years recorded with Art Pepper, and among other things put out a number of albums under his own name on both ...

Most of the records made by Latvian company Jersika, the jazz and improvised-music label founded by Mareks Ameriks in 2017, are made completely analogue and eventually cut directly to lacquer. But ...

There has been a lot of excitement over the arrival yesterday in Denmark of one Miles Davis’s paintings. It is a painting ...

The organ trio, like big bands, probably never completely went away. It’s an observation worth making perhaps, given what ...

Saxophonist Sam Coombes returns with his fifth album, a quartet set recorded in Paris in July 2024. It marks his return to ...

One friendly patron jabs a finger at evidence of this street-level club’s raunchy past - red lightbulbs, wall-length mirrors and glittery golden frills hung ...

Jim Mullen, one of the UK’s pre-eminent jazz guitarists, has teamed up with two Danish musicians Jan Harbeck (tenor) and ...

Barry McRae enjoyed a record from some outstanding London players who weren't fashionable figures with major label contracts ...

The author says he was born in Toronto in 1941 and is the retired president of an entertainment agency who spent 27 years ...

Simon Adams saw Moiré Music avoid the pitfall of over-arrangement with fine solos from such as Simon Picard, Lol Coxhill and ...

One friendly patron jabs a finger at evidence of this street-level club’s raunchy past – red lightbulbs, wall-length mirrors and glittery golden frills hung around the ceiling. Legend has it King ...