As with so many of his works. Bennett has enjoyed considerable success with the fourmovement Concerto, which has been given fairly...

Barnyard Blues: Ostrich Walk: Tiger Rag: At The Jass Band Ball: Look At 'Em Doing It Now: Oriental Jazz: Reisenweber Rag (Original...

Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli make a two-violin team which has caught the fancy of many listeners: perhaps some classical buffs...

I refer to your review of "Jazz In Britain -• -The 20s" which evoked in me no little nostalgia, but (as with so many British reissues)...

This is an electronically re-channelled stereo issue; the originals that form it reach back into the mid-fifties, in some cases such as...

Very few jazz records have come my way this year, but I particularly welcome the VJM mono album VLP49, which I reviewed in February. It...

Some people believe Czechoslovakia to be the home of classical string-playing; few believe it to be the home of advanced jazz...

Half my choices this year present the work of British musicians, evidence not only of the steadily rising standard of local jazz but also...

They called Louis Armstrong "Satchmo", "The Great Fun-Man of Jazz", and "King Louis". He was an institution in the world of popular...

The arts have all become a trifle more mixedup than they used to be, their edges no longer cut quite so clearly. Jazz is certainly no...

Floyd Bean (piano), Bud Jacobson (clarinet), Boyce Brown (alto saxophone) . . Names to conjure with ? If you agree, Dad, then you are...

To-day the soprano saxophone is as common in jazz as the new electronic paraphernalia and it is curious to recall that, for the previous...

These sides have been issued before on LP— two 10-inch records back in the late fifties, and an incomplete Music for Pleasure issue in...

On a Saturday last August 1 happened to be in Copenhagen. In the shopping precinct I met some friends from England and, after a quiet...

It is inevitable that some of the effects of the pop music explosion will be felt in jazz, just as jazz has contributed—albeit often...

Independent companies, devoted to recording and issuing jazz simply because their proprietors loved the music, have an honoured place in...

All too infrequently a newly recorded album comes along which seems to be so perfect both in conception and execution that one starts...

In 1951, when Duke Ellington was busy in Paris, a contingent from the band led by Johnny Hodges took off to play some shows in Europe. A...

This is an often reissued location recording of a jazz concert presented in 1947 by impressario Gene Norman in Pasadena, California. The...

If Count Basic is a master of understatement, Oscar Peterson often sounds guilty of overkill. He does at times on "Oscar Peterson Jam"...