Tributes have been flowing in to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Duke Ellington Jazz Orchestra. Ellington was a force...

A band of four soloists: Einav on alto, soprano and tenor sax and flute; Laurent Coulondre on piano, organ and synth; Evan Har Ever on...

I discovered this label through Bandcamp: the releases I’ve seen curate jazz concerts of old at the affordable price of £3 for a...

Janel Leppin’s formidable body of work is difficult to categorise: is it Chamber Jazz with touches of Rock in Opposition and Punk ethic...

First of all: an audiophile warning- this album was recorded on a portable tape recorder at De Lantaren in the Netherlands on 26thy...

Cuneiform press releases are unfailingly helpful, and the description of Thumbscrew’s music as “like a reverse black hole radiating...

First of all, some basic information: described as “music beyond normality” and “controlled improvisation”, TRANSCEND is an edited (to 93...

This Norwegian duo has carved a niche in the jazz electronica field; Bang works more on the electronics side with field recordings, found...

I am somewhat confused about the announcement of all of the Oblivion Express LPs in a boxset as I see no mention of it on the Soul Bank...

Please read in conjunction with BILLIE HOLIDAY PART ONE on this website. This is part of a projected follow-up book to ‘Within You,...

Guy Segers of UNIVERS ZERO is the mastermind behind this project. The press release suggests that Guy “takes the improvisations as raw...

Playing a mixture of free jazz and more conventional post-bop jazz, Charlotte Keeffe has developed into one of Britain’s top trumpeters...

SUN RA (1914-1993): Born in 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama, Herman Blount changed his name to Sun Ra in 1952. He claimed he had never been...

“I lowered the needle onto the spinning black disc. The music began with the notes of a piano stepping lightly as a dancer. Suddenly and...

Yet another vinyl reissue for the popular jazz rock fusion band with musicians like trumpeter and MILES DAVIS/ KEITH JARRETT chronicler...

Now here is something absolutely essential in 5 x LP, 4 x CD or download, and available on BANDCAMP. We have OPEN (1967), the one with...

It may just have been released on Verve Records, but this archive recording is actually from the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966. While, I...

I got re-acquainted with the music of tenor saxophonist/ flautist CHARLES LLOYD with his trilogy of 2022 albums “Trios” (“Chapel”,...

I am not a major fan of free jazz, but this albums by a quartet of Sam Rivers (reeds, flute), Anthony Braxton (reeds, flute) led by...

You may well have heard of Hungarian Sânor Szabô if you are a student of guitar, and if you are intrigued by the prospect of hearing a...