The Complete 1975 Nancy Pulsations Concert I need to watch Freddie King’s spirit-lifting appearance at the Beat ’66 TV-show on YouTube every now and then. His instrumental hit Hideaway is like a ...

The death is reported of pianist, composer and bandleader Mike Westbrook, aged 90. His manager, Peter Conway, today issued ...

At The Jazz Showcase A previously unissued recording by enigmatic pianist and composer Mal Waldron (1925-2003). It was ...

Gospel Music The latest album from vibraharpist Joel Ross is described in the publicity as a “sonic interpretation of the ...

Mazurka In Jazz House of the Black Gardenia is a nonet that delivers hot vintage swing with a contemporary edge. Its founder ...

Landings Ingrid Jensen is a Canadian trumpet player much admired in North America as a prime mover of the all-female jazz ...

Luca Bragalini, a musicologist and academic historian, published Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions in Italian in 2025. It ...

Mutima Bassist Cecil McBee racked up numerous dates as an in-demand sideman to everyone from Chico Freeman and Andrew Hill to Pharoah Sanders and Elvin Jones, but only recorded eight albums as leader, ...

Love Dance For me Woody Shaw will always embody the culmination of a trumpet lineage that starts with Dizzy Gillespie and ...

Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert plumbed the familial and musical origins of one of the leading individualists of the modern ...