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

The title of this book is rather misleading : " Recorded Jazz" has a definitive ring about it, suggesting something fairly comprehensive....

Thanks mainly to the trumpet and a tasteful clarinet, Jazz me Blues has its moments, but something more than the suave polish of Hal...

It is patently absurd to assume that the best jazz in Britain is to be heard only in London. Just to prove the point here is a record by...

Both CDs, recorded in the early 1950s, exemplify mainstream jazz as John Hammond, the Vanguard jazz overseer, thought it should sound,...

Although jazz has been played in common time for many years, there is no reason why other time signatures should not be adopted. The...

We often blame the record companies for their relative neglect of British jazz musicians. And so we should: Britain has produced some of...

Laurent de Wilde has been making music on the French jazz scene for over ten years, and has been in a succession of Barney Wilen bands....

Rendell (tnr) ; Ronnie Ross (bar, alto) ; Bert Courtley (tpt); Eddie Harvey (tmb, pro); Ken Napper (bass); Phil Seamen (des). 24/9/1957...

(Nixa, tape Nos. UU1011-A, .B(—Jimmy Skidmore (tnr) ; Harry Klein (bar) ; Kenny Baker (t pt); Keith Christie (tmb) ; Dill Jones (pno) ;...

Those readers of the jazz pages of THE GRAMOPHONE for forty years mentioned by Roger Wimbush in your March issue (how many of them...

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

Lu Watters and his Yerba Buena Jazz Band have a lot to answer for. It was he, and they, who by their popular success on the West Coast in...

As the 1960s dawned, Coleman wrested the direction of progressive jazz away from that of Charlie Parker's, and his international impact...

A really original big jazz band is something of a rarity. The economics of the enterprise are different from what they were 30-odd years...

Presumably these musicians are called "jazz babies" because Jack Delaney and his clarinettist, Pete Fountain, are products of the jazz...

One of the most exciting jazz events of 1966 was the formation of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis big band. The co-leaders are two men well...

Just By Myself: I Remember Clifford: Are You Real/Moanin': Justice. Fontana Q TFL5116 (12 in., 279. plus 8. 94d. P:T.).

This is one of the crispest jazz recordings made in this country that I've heard for some time. The tunes are well known but not worn out...

For the New Orleans jazz enthusiast, Capitol LC653s will provide much enjoyment in its eight numbers by Sharkey Bonano and his Kings of...