These are three programmes from Marian McPartiand's celebrated radio series which has been running in the US for the past IS years. The...

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)...

The Jazz Crusaders is the name chosen by a group of five young men now building up a reputation in Los Angeles. Without wishing to appear...

The surge of jazz issues on Compact Disc, including some outstanding reissues, will make this year's choices somewhat familiar to...

High Society: Do What Ory Say (V): Down Home Rag: Careless Love: Jazz Me Blues/Weary Blues: Original Dixieland One-Step: Bourbon Street...

Hank D'Amico, Woody Herman, to realize how deeply, indeed exceptionally, he had absorbed the essentials of jazz. I hope we are now out of...

Pit your wits against the Gramophone editorial team Who? What? When? or Where? Each month we give you a set of clues to help you solve a...

With a reputation in the sub-funk world of the Brand New Heavies, their former keyboardist and arranger has branched out into...

This has been another of those years in which just about six great jazz records were issued. I recall the great pleasure I had in...

Ever-Lovin' Baby (V): Aunt Hagar'e Country Home (V): High Society: Blue Dawn: Riverboat Shuffle/Roundtable Romp: Ain't Cha Glad? (V): A...

The enterprising VJM Society score again with one of the finest bands in the country. Even the vocals (by drummer Ted Wood) are...

The Jazz Caverners are a survival of the trad boom and about as good as they came during that era. Never being enamoured of vocalists,...

Although every one of these tracks has been issued and reissued in this country, at all three speeds and in all sorts of combinations,...

All Star Special (Flamingo All Stars): Wait And See (London Jazz Quartet): Red Prune (Ronnie Ross Quintet): Moveable (Eddie Thompson...

This is a perfect example of how LP records can turn jazz musicians into bores, even oldsters like Kid Ory, who could have made...

At this sort of price we cannot really grumble if we don't get utter perfection in jazz. The Papa Bue band does not give us that, but it...

165, 166, 167—Lewis (c/t); Elmer Talbert (1 p1) Jim Robinson (ttnb); Alton Purnell (peso); Lawrence Marrero (bjo) ; Alcide "Slow Drag "...

"Four pieces for the jazz guitar by Pierre CavaIli," proclaims the front of the sleeve. Well, perhaps so, if one uses the word jazz in...

The Jazz Scene was label boss Norman Granz's ambitious attempt to sum up what he thought were the essential aspects of the jazz world in...

There It Is: The Five Of Us: Hootin'/'Pon My Soul: Autumn Leaves: Still Life. Tempo Q TA P32 12 in., 27s. tici. plus 8s. slid. PT.).