Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, known for his bebop and soul-jazz work, died 9 November, aged 98, apparently following ...

Not only did he showcase bossa nova to the world, Sérgio Mendes personifies how you don’t have to be a shark to succeed in the global music business. The Brazilian music legend here reminisces on an ...

Swedish swing-based trombonist and trumpeter Gunhild Carling is a talented composer who plays flute, harmonica, banjo, ...

I have never considered the month of October to be associated with jazz trios but for some unknown reason the bands I’ve ...

Pianist Tord Gustavsen was born in Oslo in 1970. He studied music at Oslo and Trondheim universities, then made his highly ...

Simply put this is the graphic novel version of the 2023 movie of the same name that centres around the disappearance of ...

Trumpeter turned arranger Quincy Jones – best known to the general public as the producer of hit Michael Jackson albums after ...

As evening blurs into night, technicoloured lettering slithers around the concrete bulk of LOCH in Wuppertal. A sandwich ...

The Melbourne International Jazz Festival aspires to be recognised as a world-class jazz festival. This year, it got it ...

An interesting mixture of sources here: R&B, blues, folk, rock and popular – and also some original material. To all the songs on this album Wilson brings a highly sophisticated and thoroughly ...

Among Allan Holdsworth’s refer­ences are jobs with Tony Wil­liams’ Lifetime, Soft Machine, Bill Bruford and John Stevens. In re­cent years he has led his own bands and the latest edition of this is to ...

Superlatives are notorious in jazz criticism, but Molde really is a very special event in the jazz calendar. What musicians and fans alike appreci­ate about Molde is that it has always stayed faithful ...