Michael Doyle’s title is striking but also misleading. Ostensibly about the adventures (and misadventures) of Artie Shaw’s ...

Conspicuously absent from the reference books, the intriguingly named trumpeter and cornetist Webster Young (1932-2003), was ...

Lakecia Benjamin New York alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin charged right out of the gate with her “warmup tune” Trane – ...

A few days ahead of International Jazz Day 2025 (30 April), the Hanseatic city of Bremen was once again, for a few days, an ...

I first met Gale Madden at a record shop in Bellingham, Washington in the late 80s. As we stood digging a CD of vintage Roy ...

This was originally released in 1958 via Prestige and recorded three days after a Columbia session for the Miles Davis album ...

Born in Paris and raised in Scotland, Rebecca Vasmant has become an unofficial ambassador for contemporary jazz. Drawing ...

Musicians at Jim Doherty's Spondance session in 1986. L-R: Bob Sheppard, Tom Warrington, Randy Aldcroft, Gordon Brisker, Bobby Shew, Louis Stewart, Billy Mintz and Jim Doherty. Photo courtesy Livia ...

I had the pleasure of seeing New-York-based drummer and composer Allison Miller seven years ago when she was playing Newport Jazz Festival in Parlour Game, the quartet co-led by her and violinist ...