Norwegian Jan Gunnar Hoff’s model of Scandi-fusion sends sparks off the rails for this album, with a quartet whose members ...

All my Christmases came at once this month. I was assigned two new albums for review, they arrived in the same post earlier ...

In 2023, Swedish bassist and composer Vilhelm Bromander released his new big band’s debut album. That ensemble now takes its ...

Musical inspiration can strike from the most unexpected sources. For Lance Ferguson, the spark behind L’Océan De Toi came ...

Ralph J. Gleason (1917-1975) was a jazz journalist, prolific writer, critic, entrepreneur, political commentator and pundit ...

All four of the albums in this month’s round-up speak of the way in which the powerful forces of personality, intellect and ...

Now in its fifth edition, the 2025 Sicilia Jazz Festival (22 June – 6 July) offers 85 concerts and involves 385 musicians, ...

Konstantin N. Rega graduated from the University of East Anglia's Writing MA with the Ink, Sweat and Tears Scholarship. Twice ...

Born in South Orange, New Jersey in 1977, drummer Jonah David was initially drawn to jazz after listening to a Preservation ...

On his website, Los Angeles session musician Steve Gregory lists a huge number of projects he has been involved in over the ...

Ofri Nehemya might be a name familiar to those who’ve followed the work of such luminaries as Avishai Cohen (bass), Omer ...