The tabla player Zakir Hussain died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in San Francisco on 16 December at the age of 73. The ...

Pianist Sonny Clark, given the regularity with which he – in common with quite a few others – recorded for Blue Note either ...

Milky smoke from an incense stick is pirouetting around a dozen porcelain cats and one bowl of dry-roasted peanuts. Alto ...

French pianist Martial Solal, famous for scoring the music for Jean-Luc Godard’s film À Bout De Souffle, died 12 December, ...

Bassist and composer Ursula Harrison, winner of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024, didn’t have to cast widely for an influential ...

Kate Kortum’s band is rattling the wood-panelled walls of this L-shaped venue – but the singer is nowhere to be seen. Her ...

The Joel Frahm Trio, consisting of tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm, bassist Dan Loomis and drummer Ernesto Cervini has existed ...

The gestation of Chris Sansom’s magnum opus suffered a 50-year hiatus. Sansom composed his four-part suite for nonet – ...

Performing on nearly 700 albums (150 as a leader) Phil Woods kept the bebop flame burning brightly throughout a long and ...

This 11-CD set is a collection of 1943-1949 swing-era and early bop recordings originally made exclusively for the US armed ...

Three albums this month that show the sheer diversity of music that comes under the jazz umbrella. Seriously finds three ...

The New Talent imprint of the Spanish Fresh Sound label puts relatively unknown artists in the spotlight and their releases ...