Classic Decca Recordings Of Bob Crosby And His Orchestra & The Bob Cats (1936-42) I’ve reviewed some superb Mosaic sets – and that includes most of them. But their latest archival release is pure joy, ...

Lasting Impression Brandon Sanders spent many hours as a child visiting his grandmother’s jazz club in Kansas City where she ...

Afro Baroque As in my last batch of selections, eclecticism is a keyword with these albums. Afro Baroque is one of those ...

It’s All In Your Head One of the unintended consequences of the rise of jazz education is that as technical proficiency has ...

The Josh Rager trio with Peter Bernstein. L-R: Richard Irwin, Bernstein, Rager, Alex Walkington Gene Shelby (d); Mike Stern, Frank Gambale, Aiden Ishmael (elg); Eghay Synth, Usereal Fitri (kyb); ...

Jazz And Bossa Nova Lalo Schifrin (1932–2025) composed some of the most memorable film and television music of our age. A ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert found Shorter's post Weather Report fusion one-dimensional in comparison with the musical ...

Some might feel a musical duo offers a third of the entertainment provided by a sextet or an eighth of that available in a 16-piece band; but music is not a numbers game. Being exposed, however, a ...

Forty years ago Simon Adams found that Ra's leopard-skin frock didn't disguise the sloppiness of his musical presentation ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert hailed one of the key modern jazz guitar records, a singular session replete with chromatic ...

December 2025, including Brandon Sanders, Woody Shaw, Gene Shelby, Wes Smith and Dave Stryker // Editor's pick: Dave Stryker ...

Forty years ago Michael Tucker heard the 'perfect rebuttal of a recent, patronising description of ECM as "the Habitat ...