The first part of this column could fit on to the last—we have three L.P. discs of jazz ! Bruns. LA8515 has a Dixieland Jazz Battle,...

It's perhaps understandable that pioneer R&B Bostic stuck to his winning formula for 15 years, before making the present album...

There is a feeling of deg' vu about this music; it is redolent of those well-meaning British jazz attempts to get back to the roots of...

***Stop (Lanphere) (Am. New Jazz JRC38) ***Go (Lanphere) (Am. New jazz JRC36) (Melodisc 1120-5s. 9d.)

Jazz books these days seem to be getting pompouser and pompouser (not at all the same thing as getting seriouser and seriouser), so it...

Another argument Mr. R. H. Young used, was that jazz has a lack of substance. It would take too much space to explain what jazz music...

Not so long ago the whole trend of experiment among jazz composers was towards a marriage between jazz and European techniques, towards...

Jazz impresarios are frequently berated, yet their contributions to the music sometimes prove enduring. Norman Granz, for instance, first...

Tempo have been issuing some more of the Turk Murphy Jazz Band (A75 and A8o to 82). Murphy was once trombonist with the famed Lu Watters...

***Aunt Hagar's Blues (Handy) (do. 631-2) **Jersey Lightning (Luis Russell) (do. 632-1) (Esquire to-428-6s. I Id.)

Ory (trnb); Joe Darensbourg WO; Teddy Buckner (cornet); Lloyd Glenn (pew); Ed Garland (bass) ; Minor Hall (des). 5/5/1951. Pamona,...

I suspect that shops will file this CD under 'Jazz' for reasons which have nothing to do with the music on it. In the first place, EFZ is...

This is certainly one of the better traditional jazz bands in this country, but it seems a pity that such good folk do not try their...

Those alumni of the old Bob Crosby orchestra Eddie Miller and Ray Bauduc, amuse themselves on this EP by reminiscing—musically, of...

For nearly half a century British-born Marian McPartland has been a central figure in American jazz as pianist, composer and broadcaster....

The two vinyl albums collected onto this single CD contain some of the most significant progressive jazz made between 1945 and 1960....

**** Little Benny (" Little Benny" Harris) ( Jazz Parade CPVD1o) ****Strike up The Band (Gershwin) (Jazz Parade CPVD8) ( Jazz Parade...

Tiger rag—Hylton's Orch. (B5789— 1930) ; Original Dixieland Jazz Band (B8466-19 r 9) ; Dornberger's Orch. (Victor 20647— I 927) ;...

Marian McPartland has had most of the currently active pianists as guests on her "Piano Jazz" programme and it seems like a good idea to...

The second edition of the Music Master Jazz & Blues Catalogue has been updated and improved, and now features over 34,000 recordings by...