You’d probably have to be very keen on Nina Simone’s music to want this book, and the author is, of course, just that. He’s ...

As what passed for summer in the UK turns distinctly to autumn / the downpour season, the tide of jazz-related “product” ...

Is jazz intrinsically left-wing? Judging by the JJ inbox, it’s a question that many might think doesn’t need asking. It ...

I first saw DFTC at the London Jazz Festival in 2018 and the band consisted of a mere nine members. I’ve seen them several ...

The Gibson Johnny Smith that guitarist George Benson used to record his 1976 hit album Breezin’ (sales around three million) ...

New scheme aims to see more people from the global majority working backstage in sound, recording, lighting, production and ...

Thomas Melia reckons British pop star Raye’s reprise of familiar blues and soul moves is 'enough to draw emotion out of even ...

Almost a quarter of a century ago – it seems like only yesterday – I enjoyed a conversation with Joe Zawinul after a ...

This two-CD set is a reissue of the original LP album, with most of CD2 containing 18 added  bonus tracks. For this ...

BBC Sessions 1968-1970 (RANDB101) Once again, Nick Duckett’s RandB Records mines the rich vein of material from the BBC ...

The Rhodes electric piano, reviled by many purists, but a key new sound in jazz from the late 1960s on, is the centre of ...