Trumpeter Guy Barker, well-known as in the vanguard of the first so-called British jazz revival of the 1980s, when he played ...

Monk’s third solo album (the first was Thelonious Alone and the second Thelonious Himself) came about because producer Orrin ...

If there actually are any contemporaries of mine out there, readers who recall the popular music landscape before rock got ...

When an album includes a selection of standards, it’s always interesting to see how they are handled and occasionally the old joke about playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right ...

They say : London-based alto saxophonist Donovan Haffner releases his highly anticipated debut album ‘Alleviate’, a 9-track collection of original compositions recorded with Donovan’s quintet and is a ...

Saxophonist, flautist, composer and sometime bass-player Pete Canter made his mark on the London jazz scene in the 1980s.

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When pianist Rachael Z released the track Bodhisattva ahead of Sensual, her 13th solo album, one at first assumed it would be a jazzed-up cover of the 70s Steely Dan song. What streamed was a slick re ...

Yet again I find myself pleasantly surprised, albeit with minor reservations, by a new release reminiscent of old-style – i.e. pre-1960 – middle-of-the-road, jazz-inflected pop which may still be ...

Anthony George Coe was born in Canterbury in 1934 and began playing the clarinet around 1948. He had classical training on the instrument from Paddy Purcell (a pupil of Charles Draper) and took ...

Singer and bassist Farnon led Dave Newton (p) and Phil Johnson (d) in a set including GAS classics and Stevie Wonder’s For Once In My Life Left to right: Dave Newton, Nicola Farnon, Phil Johnson at ...

An interesting second album from an out­standing British group. I think that the best tracks for the whole band are This Is What Happens and Black Horse, both of which get into a really exciting ...