Play On! is a new musical, touring the UK since September and finishing end of February, that features Ashton Moore as ...

The TV dance star recommends the music of the dancing swing-era as a prelude to 'abstract' adventures, and Quincy Jones is ...

Milky smoke from an incense stick is pirouetting around a dozen porcelain cats and one bowl of dry-roasted peanuts. Alto ...

The 51st International Jazz Pianists Festival in Kalisz, Poland came to an end on 24 Nov. Just as for last year’s jubilee ...

French pianist Martial Solal, famous for scoring the music for Jean-Luc Godard’s film À Bout De Souffle, died 12 December, ...

The bassist winner of the BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024 award is steeped in jazz academia, but, a slight variation, her degree ...

The tabla player Zakir Hussain died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in San Francisco on 16 December at the age of 73. The ...

Performing on nearly 700 albums (150 as a leader) Phil Woods kept the bebop flame burning brightly throughout a long and ...

Kate Kortum’s band is rattling the wood-panelled walls of this L-shaped venue – but the singer is nowhere to be seen. Her ...

Pianist Sonny Clark, given the regularity with which he – in common with quite a few others – recorded for Blue Note either ...

The gestation of Chris Sansom’s magnum opus suffered a 50-year hiatus. Sansom composed his four-part suite for nonet – ...