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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Thirty years ago the NY tenor man, peer to Berg, Brecker, Mintzer et al, talked about his journey through Miles Davis, Elvin Jones and Stone Alliance and back to bebop ...

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 ...

The trio-debut of pianist, composer and 2025 MacArthur Fellow Craig Taborn with Tomeka Reid and Ches Smith has been eagerly awaited. The trio’s approach on Dream Archives is full of complexity, yet as ...

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

Forty years ago Martin Isherwood saw the Rolling Stones drummer leading such luminaries of British jazz as Stan Tracey, Harry ...

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