The third and final volume in this series showcases the instruments of the brass section. (Parts 1 and 2, devoted to rhythm and reeds...

Universal Classics and Jazz UK has launched a new download site, www.classicsandjazz.co.uk, which at present contains more than 125,000...

Though 1980 has been a good year for jazz issues and reissues, only fifteen came my way for review here and my choices are...

(a)—Carey (des); Tony Gibbons (c/t); Johnny Codd Opt); Tony Milliner (1mb) ' • Pat Hawes (pea) Bob Mack (gtr); Bob Sinclair (bass).

This magnificent band could make a real contribution to jazz if it contained a handful of soloists. Zentner's creamy-toned trombone is...

Recent inevitable war-time increases in the prices of all records previously selling at less than 4s. 6d. is to be to a great extent...

Creed Taylor was the original jazz producer for the American ABC Paramount label. This EP, taken from an ABC LP, is an attempt at...

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

New Orleans Hop Scop Blues: Snag It/It Makes My Love Come Down: Working Man Blues. (Parlophone 7 in. EP GEP8714-8s. plus Is. lid. PT.)

Only one title from this collection has ever appeared here before although the original LP dates from 1956, a period when it was...

The first title here, "Forest Flower", recorded mainly at the 1966 Monterey Jazz Festival, took Lloyd into that tiny elite of jazz...

It was in August, 1931, that Bix Beiderbecke departed this life, aged 28, leaving a number of records and some legends. As the years have...

It seems that the habit of pigeon-holing musicians and styles has become obligatory in jazz in recent years. Unfortunately this...

The absence of a revolutionary figurehead of the sort that providentially appeared to codify the diatonic, chromatic and atonal eras of...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe has for long been one of the most noted of the coloured gospel singers, in this country through her records, as...

Just Squeeze Me: For You: Midnight Sun: You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To: The Folks Who Live On The Hill: I Didn't Know About You/What...

More than once I have commented on the industry and tenacity, of purpose shown by British jazz authors when compiling reference works on...

Excellent examples of intelligent jazz piano playing, without the clutter of drums and what-not. The now forty-six-year-old...

I would suggest that no pianist in jazz has a greater knowledge of the work of other keyboard artists than Marian McPartland. Her...

Acid-jazz is not a style but a marketing gambit, so anyone investigating its roots is in for a thorny time - the mixed metaphor is about...