As of 2025, Sonny Simmons – saxophonist, player of the English horn and composer – embodies a strand of the jazz tradition ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert compared Steps Ahead stadium rockers and Steps Ahead reinvented fusioneers unplugged ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert heard Tyner and Brecker come through strongly in a session loaded with historical resonance and ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert saw the brothers' exceptional jazz soloing as an abiding factor through the vagaries of ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw, in a band playing fusion and a hipster audience expecting bebop, the tension between ...

Incredible technique and incredulous gasps were the order of the evening as shy Stanley Jordan held centre stage with his ...

Sixty years ago the famed cornet player struggled to appreciate Tony Williams and remembered when Bix Beiderbecke's pivot ...

Fate In A Pleasant Mood A relatively early release from Sun Ra in his and the ensemble’s far-reaching recording career, Fate ...

Sixty years ago Michael Shera admired Under Milk Wood for its writing, for Bobby Wellins' tenor solos and for piano-playing ...

Fifty years ago Steve Voce knew he wouldn't like Gibbs' latest until he'd become acclimatised to its innovations and accepted ...

Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd’s move from ECM to Blue Note in 2013 – this is his 12th album for the label – has been ...

Sixty years ago Graham Boatfield thought Ayler's 'harsh, feverish, tense and bitter' music might be the soundtrack to a ...