David Maker, one-time Jazz FM boss who rejected accusations the station had strayed beyond jazz by pointing out that even ...

Sérgio Mendes may not have been the main originator of bossa nova – one of the most innovative musical movements of the 20th ...

As what passed for summer in the UK turns distinctly to autumn / the downpour season, the tide of jazz-related “product” ...

I first saw DFTC at the London Jazz Festival in 2018 and the band consisted of a mere nine members. I’ve seen them several ...

Is jazz intrinsically left-wing? Judging by the JJ inbox, it’s a question that many might think doesn’t need asking. It ...

The Gibson Johnny Smith that guitarist George Benson used to record his 1976 hit album Breezin’ (sales around three million) ...

You’d probably have to be very keen on Nina Simone’s music to want this book, and the author is, of course, just that. He’s ...

Thomas Melia reckons British pop star Raye’s reprise of familiar blues and soul moves is 'enough to draw emotion out of even ...

BBC Sessions 1968-1970 (RANDB101) Once again, Nick Duckett’s RandB Records mines the rich vein of material from the BBC ...

The Rhodes electric piano, reviled by many purists, but a key new sound in jazz from the late 1960s on, is the centre of ...

Almost a quarter of a century ago – it seems like only yesterday – I enjoyed a conversation with Joe Zawinul after a ...