All my Christmases came at once this month. I was assigned two new albums for review, they arrived in the same post earlier ...

In 2023, Swedish bassist and composer Vilhelm Bromander released his new big band’s debut album. That ensemble now takes its ...

Now in its fifth edition, the 2025 Sicilia Jazz Festival (22 June – 6 July) offers 85 concerts and involves 385 musicians, ...

Musical inspiration can strike from the most unexpected sources. For Lance Ferguson, the spark behind L’Océan De Toi came ...

Ralph J. Gleason (1917-1975) was a jazz journalist, prolific writer, critic, entrepreneur, political commentator and pundit ...

Born in South Orange, New Jersey in 1977, drummer Jonah David was initially drawn to jazz after listening to a Preservation ...

On his website, Los Angeles session musician Steve Gregory lists a huge number of projects he has been involved in over the ...

All four of the albums in this month’s round-up speak of the way in which the powerful forces of personality, intellect and ...

I’d long known about Brighton’s safehouse project, an enduring and admirable enterprise dedicated to improvised music, ...

New York based tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger has made over 20 albums. Often known for his fiery delivery, here he adds a ...

Jack Chambers is a professor of music and language at the University of Toronto, and author of the biography Milestones: The ...