I came to this one cold. Eight albums as a leader, a Wikipedia entry, three Hamilton Music Awards on the shelf, and I had never heard the name. That is my failing rather than his, and I suspect a good ...

Four years ago, Blue Note and Universal Music Group Africa announced Blue Note Africa, an imprint with a stated remit to sign musicians from across the continent and carry them to a wider world. It ...

It’s 2PM on 24th November 2013 in Camden Town… And that can only mean one thing – it’s time for ‘Another Sunday Afternoon at Dingwalls!’ All the usual suspects were there i.e. the Dingwalls’ faithful, ...

“Marvin said to me when he first heard the music, “If you give me that I’ll do the whole album.” I said to him, “That’s a great idea Marvin, but you know Berry and co. will never go for it?” He turned ...

This Friday, 30th January, marks a very important event in the jazz calendar, the 80th anniversary of the birth of a great man and musician, Tubby Hayes. For all his fans, he was and always will be, ...

Let’s get the admission out of the way first: jazz clarinet, as a rule, prompts an involuntary reach for the skip button around these parts. Decades of well-meaning Goodman pastiche and Shaw-in-aspic ...

You’re never too old to funk. This much is true. On Live at Joe’s Pub, trumpeter Shunzo Ohno doesn’t just reaffirm it – he embodies it. Drawn from a series of performances at a storied New York venue, ...

Released following the death of tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, Sangam & Friends serves as both a celebration of an extraordinary musical friendship and a poignant reminder of the profound connection ...

Montreal drummer and composer Alexis Martin makes a striking first statement as a bandleader with Les pôles Volume 1, a richly atmospheric album that sits somewhere between contemporary jazz, chamber ...

Blue Note’s signing strategy of late has been a mixed affair. For every Julian Lage or Melissa Aldana — artists who feel like genuine torchbearers of the label’s legacy — there’s a debut that hedges ...

ACP Records is not a label of any kind I’m used to writing about. It belongs to Amherst College Press, the college’s scholarly publishing arm, and it applies the machinery of academic publishing to ...

It would be difficult to overestimate how thoroughly Steven Bernstein has, for thirty-odd years, defined himself by the slide trumpet — that ungainly, marvellous contraption he has all but ...