Saxophonist, flautist, composer and sometime bass-player Pete Canter made his mark on the London jazz scene in the 1980s. After a spell in Wales in the 90s he settled in the South West in 2001 and ran ...
If you are looking for musicians to celebrate a bassist as unmistakable and influential as Ray Brown this trio surely sits ...
For a geezer of my vintage the great and most fruitful UK jazz explosion occurred in the late 60s-early 70s, fuelled by South African expats and musicians from the West Country and then, somewhat in ...
When I interviewed guitarist Steve Khan in 2011 (the interview published in Jazz Journal in September and October 2018), I asked him about Anthony... The 22nd Scarborough Jazz Festival takes place ...
This Danish release follows hot on the heels of last year’s issue on Timeless of the fourth album in the Eastern Rebellion series (reviewed in JJI, November 1984). Third Set was actually recorded six ...
Jazz Journal critics were invited to allot 100 points to 10 choices from the albums reviewed in Jazz Journal in 2018, with a maximum of 20 points per choice. After unhurried, seemly and properly ...
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner hailed the quality, authenticity, musicianship and creativity of jazz from a country - Poland - in which, only nine years earlier, the music had been proscribed as a ...
Jazz FM, the London-based radio station, this year resumes its jazz awards scheme, with categories including soul and blues acts of the year. Nick Pitts, Jazz FM content director, says of the awards, ...
The group started with a swinging minor-key tune, Big Bertha by Duke Pearson. Vincent Herring took the first solo, employing a powerful attack and hard-driving lines. Catalan guitarist Joan Fort ...
A crisp, swinging, well-executed programme of mainstream/modern, ‘Cleopatra’s Needle’ is a splendid advertisement for British jazz. Ronnie Ross plays some of the most inventive baritone sax I have ...
Freebop is a group that has assembled some of the finest jazzmen Britain has produced. Its name is self descriptive in that it brings together men associated with straight bop and others whose prime ...
Steven Cerra studied drums with Victor Feldman and Larry Bunker before going on the road with Bobby Troup, Anita O’Day and Juliet Prowse during the 1960s. He eventually left the music scene in 1970 to ...
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