Drummer Roy Haynes died after a short illness on 12 November, 2024 in Nassau County, New York, aged 99. His career had spanned playing swing with Lester Young in the late 1940s through bebop with ...

This 11-CD set is a collection of 1943-1949 swing-era and early bop recordings originally made exclusively for the US armed forces during World War II. It consists of 220 tracks, nine of which have ...

This release contains the original quartet recordings of the Shepp/Dixon quartet, followed by three tracks from the saxophonist with the New York Contemporary Five rounded off by seven selections via ...

In 1978, after appearing for years as a sideman and also an accompanist to Ella Fitzgerald and Tony Bennett, pianist Tommy Flanagan (1930-2001) formed his Super Jazz Trio, with bassist Reggie Workman ...

Pat Metheny is one of those special artists who’s live concerts are highly anticipated events whenever he comes to the UK. He ...

Known as the “Lone Wolf”, Sonny Stitt was constantly moving from town to town and city to city, attempting to find common cause with whatever local rhythm section was available. In his Jazz Masters Of ...

To The Slaughter In his note for this one Soweto Kinch highlights how he considers the long-form suite that comprises this ...

Arakatak Metropole is the long-established Netherlands juggernaut jazz orchestra and, almost by definition, a minimalist ...

Paramount Quartet Long one of my favourite saxophonists, over the years Lovano has led or appeared on many a terrific session ...

The A to JazZ Festival marked its 15th anniversary in Sofia’s South Park 2, a leafy setting in one of the few European ...

This is a book of photographs taken at the recording sessions described above (and elsewhere) during the early 1960s. Before ...