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

Only 14 jazz records came my way this year, so it would have to be a truly vintage year for six of them to qualify. In fact, it has been...

From Denmark there come two discs which prove that from the original (I will not use the term "traditional") jazz viewpoint, music...

The John Lewis Modern Jazz Quartet has produced the most tasteful, immaculately performed and adultly imaginative jazz of any small...

but in a wonderfully relaxed manner in "The Atomic Mr. Basic" (Columbia 33SX1084), probably the best recording so far made by Basie's...

Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen Sony Classical © S2K89817 Track 8 A Hundred and a Hundred, a Hundred and Twelve Samba...

The 1980s have seen saxophone quartets become a familiar part of the jazz scene. The Rova Quartet, four saxophonists from California,...

The year got off to a really poor start for mainstream jazz issues-I checked my reviews through until June before I reached even a...

With the exception of orchestral LPs by Count Basic, Duke Ellington and Gil Evans, all of which figure in the listing of colleague...

It's always faintly depressed me how some concert-goers feel compelled to listen to music stony-faced, while some works abound with...

The musical world sadly continues to lose some of its famous names. Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti, the American jazz violinist, died on August...

Some of the most memorable jazz albums of 1981 were released on the small, independent labels. "The Rest Of Gil Evans Live At The Royal...

Big bands dominate my choices this year commencing with an album of which British jazz can be justifiably proud, Alan Cohen's masterly...

The jazz-inflected last movement of Kapustin's 1991 Sixth Piano Sonata - a wonderful fusion of classical form and easy, jazzy language...

Production Manager Dermot Jones Philippa Bunting Janis Nicholls Dinah Lone Designer Circulation Manager Andrew Kirkland Verity Manager...

LDG 184. 01 recent issue and comparatively recent date, it represents the peak of Ory's recording career, itself stretching back into the...

In a year awash with reissues, perhaps it can be assumed, as Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs does with The Bible and Shakespeare, that...

Although nostalgia is still very much a commercial proposition on records, I can only find three issues that I have reviewed this year...

Right at the beginning of the year we had one of the most entrancing duet albums, "Poetry", a fully justified title to describe the...

Lambert Orkis, Andre Previnpfs DG 0 471 500-2GH Track 6 It ain't necessarily so Gershwin's Porgy and Bess via the imagination of Jascha...