This Mosaic collection, limited to 3,500 copies worldwide, chronicles two fascinating decades of Louis Armstrong’s recording activity. At no stage is it ever less than revelatory. Seven CDs, as well ...

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.

A “supremely gifted musician” who “always conveyed the sheer pleasure of making music.” In this tribute, Richard Pite remembers Keith Nichols, who passed away on 20 January 2021: One evening back in ...

Derek Hook started the Ambleside Days Festival, “a Contemporary Music Festival in the heart of the English Lake District”, in 2017. This year’s edition builds to a large ensemble concert led by Nikki ...

France 3 Grand Est did a profile on Murbach (Alsace)-based British vibraphonist Jim Hart.. and his new community choir (in French) – watch Richard Williams of the Blue Moment reviewed Welsh ...

‘Round Midnight, the new late-night jazz programme on BBC Radio 3, started last Monday. Jazz five nights a week is an apt – some might say overdue – acknowledgement by the national broadcaster of the ...

American-born drummer Jeff Williams has enjoyed an illustrious fifty-year career playing with the likes of Stan Getz, Joe Lovano and Lee Konitz. A founding member of the acclaimed quartet Lookout Farm ...

L-R: Simon Oslender, Wolfgang Meyer, Thomas Quasthoff, Shawn Grocott. Picture courtesy of the author “We should all stand up,” said Thomas Quasthoff. So we did. “And click our fingers on the two and ...

“You think you can outlast the E Street Band?!”, Bruce Springsteen asks incredulously, some three hours and five minutes into the first of two massive shows at Wembley Stadium. “We’ve been doing this ...

German cellist Anja Lechner is probably known above all for the album Chants, Hymns and Dances she recorded in 2004 with pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos, which went to the top of the US classical charts ...

In my notes for this review, one word stood out: scintillating. In Chelsea, the Summer Solstice was hot and languid, well matched by the Mediterranean delights of the Jazzato Band. I have heard Hetty ...

Keyboard player Jamie Saft is best known as a member of New York’s exploratory and experimental music scene; he appeared in London last year to mark the 60th birthday of John Zorn. The New Standard ...