With the death of Ralph Towner (1940 – 2026) contemporary jazz lost one of its most prolific and distinctive voices. How many ...

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, ...

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); ...

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 ...

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

It’s now several moons since I’ve been able to beguile a Sunday lunchtime basking in the sounds of jazz at its best. This of course is not the same as saying I have not spent several Sunday lunchtimes ...

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 ...

Stargazer Japanese labels have produced countless records that have reached only the most fanatical jazz fans in the rest of the world. Sunnyside has rescued a typical example from obscurity: pianist ...

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