Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert was pleased to be acquainted with the early work of a saxophonist who, by 1986, had become a ...

Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert relished the landmark solo on Devil Take The Hindmost and the cut-glass heavy metal riffs but ...

Forty years ago, JJ covered two concerts - Loose Tubes and Courtney Pine - at the Camden Jazz Week, both reflecting the ...

Fifty years ago, Michael Shera found strings of bass solos and Pedersen's compositions rather dull but seemed to miss two incandescent and redeeming bop solos on Cheryl ...

Liston-Smith's mid-70s records have become articles of faith for acid-jazzers, but 50 years ago, Roger Dean didn't get as far as musicological analysis of his latest, deeming it 'extremely monotonous' ...

Sixty years ago, Gerald Lascelles noted that Loussier outclassed other jazzers of the classics because he had obvious and ...

Sixty years ago, David Illingworth found Korner's latest not bad despite the forced vocals and 'white' sounding harmonica ...

An album of original Hancock compositions, written with the sea in mind. The title theme is a pretty little morsel, well exploited by Hubbard and George Coleman, a large-toned tenor player, who plays ...

Sixty years ago, Steve Voce welcomed a recording of a British band that he remembered - in a double bill with Brubeck - ...

Sixty years ago, Michael Shera rated Harriot-Meyers' fusion of jazz and 'probably the most rhythmically complex' music in the ...

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, now in its 55th year, increasingly looks like a major rock and pop festival, with ...