Thirty years ago, on the evidence of O'Higgins' NYC set with Calderazzo, Genus, Locke and Nussbaum, Stan Woolley thought the ...

Barry McRae enjoyed a record from some outstanding London players who weren't fashionable figures with major label contracts ...

Mark Gilbert saw siblinghood variously endorsed and questioned at a concert to mark Greater London Council's Jobs Year ...

Eddie Cook filled in the technical gaps in Burnett James' appraisal and explanation of Coleman Hawkins' saxophone tone ...

Simon Adams saw Moiré Music avoid the pitfall of over-arrangement with fine solos from such as Simon Picard, Lol Coxhill and ...

Sounded great!” quipped Scofield as drummer Bill Stewart suddenly dived off stage just as the trio had taken the stand. It ...

Hugh Witt gave the Kenton band, featuring a young Peter Erskine, a qualified thumbs up, wishing there had been more than ...

Chris Sheridan found in Cherry's world music moments of riveting melodic or rhythmic grandeur too often swamped in shapeless ...

Fifty years ago, listening to Coryell and McLaughlin (accompanied by Corea, Vitous and Cobham) Barry McRae reckoned ...

Robert Walton reviewed Legrand's first live London appearance, admired his ability to charm from the first moment and heard ...

Chico Hamilton's saxman reflected on Roland Kirk, Charlie Parker, Pee Wee Russell and more, and worried that the modal style ...

Gerald Lascelles, while sensing that Hancock was approaching free form, saw him avoiding its pitfalls through the use of ...