Very sad news. One of the very greats of British jazz, saxophonist Peter King, passed away on Sunday 23 August, just a few days after his 80th birthday. He had been ill for some time.

Bass player Petter Eldh adds a tremendous punch to any group he plays in. He has played with Django Bates in his Belovèd Bird trio, and now plays and tours regularly with Kit Downes and James Maddren ...

John Altman pays tribute to “one of the greatest arrangers in the history of popular music”, Jeremy Lubbock (1931-2021): Jeremy Lubbock, who passed away peacefully on Friday morning in Oxfordshire at ...

A member of Kris Davis’ progressive Pyroclastic Records stable, pianist Angelica Sanchez has gathered together some big hitters on the New York jazz scene, such as Chris Speed (tenor sax, clarinet), ...

Live and kicking: led by bassist Petter Eldh, this album has a raw energy that captures Koma Saxo’s gigs well, with their mix of jazz, hip hop and free improv. Born in Sweden, Eldh is perhaps best ...

Last seen at Cheltenham in the all- star Overtone Quartet, Chris Potter returned with something completely different: an intriguingly instrumented group of Birmingham Conservatoire students. They had ...

Saxophonist Don Weller, who had been unwell for some time, passed away in his native Croydon on Saturday 30 May 2020 at the age of 79. Saxophonist Art Themen, a good friend of Don’s since the early ...

Unvarnished, stripped down, not quite unplugged but it could have been, for this recording Walter Smith has gone back to the source with just bass and drums for company and the standards for ...