Afro Baroque As in my last batch of selections, eclecticism is a keyword with these albums. Afro Baroque is one of those happenstance sessions, a consequence of a chance meeting between the ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert found Shorter's post Weather Report fusion one-dimensional in comparison with the musical mastery of his early 60s Blue Notes ...

It’s All In Your Head One of the unintended consequences of the rise of jazz education is that as technical proficiency has generally increased it has become harder for artists to stand out. Solid ...

More Than You Know After recording A Swinging Affair for Blue Note in August 1962, Dexter Gordon took off for a successful ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert heard in Henderson's splitting, jiving and slipping of notes a still contemporary saxophone ...

Solo III German-born alto saxophonist Nicole Johänntgen has collected over 200,000 followers on social media. That popularity ...

Forty years ago Michael Tucker heard the 'perfect rebuttal of a recent, patronising description of ECM as "the Habitat ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert hailed one of the key modern jazz guitar records, a singular session replete with chromatic ...

Stargazer Japanese labels have produced countless records that have reached only the most fanatical jazz fans in the rest of the world. Sunnyside has rescued a typical example from obscurity: pianist ...

Forty years ago Simon Adams found that Ra's leopard-skin frock didn't disguise the sloppiness of his musical presentation ...

Jazz And Bossa Nova Lalo Schifrin (1932–2025) composed some of the most memorable film and television music of our age. A ...