Micic is an unfamiliar name in the UK, but possibly known by readers for his work with trumpeter Tom Harrell and by followers of jazz guitar for his development of the styles of Jim Hall and John ...

Miles Davis arrived in Paris for a tour at the end of November 1957 and whilst there, working on the music for Louis Malle’s film Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud, played at L’Olympia and at the Club St ...

When an album opens with the sound of police sirens, gunshots and the voice of Angela Davis speaking about those “abandoned by history” you know it’s not just going to be about tunes and chord ...

With this album, Weather Report restore interest and credibility. Past efforts have been guilty of all manner of vapid redundancy, but this has rich content, imagination, fire and passion. A shift of ...

The Welsh duo strive for honest and novel communication by combining performance art, nudity and Bitches Brew type jazz fusion Pure jazz, if there is such a thing, has often entered into marriages ...

Nobody can accuse British jazz musicians of being unadventurous. And an unbiased listen to this recording by Bill Le Sage’s Directions In Jazz Unit reveals that suc­cessful jazz can happen anywhere.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this cheerful set is the absence of Dave Holland. Although he toured with the trio this summer, all the acoustic bass sounds here are synthesised. Were funds ...

Without wishing to get embroiled in semantics, there must be a stage at which music can no longer be used as a description of certain sounds. To take my stand, I would say that lengthy passages of ...

Books on jazz tend to fall roughly into one of two categories. The majority are biographical, historical accounts of musicians and subgenres that elucidate their origins, developments and reasons for ...

Keyboard player, composer and producer Jeff Lorber first emerged on the scene fresh from Berklee in the mid-1970s, swiftly formed a band and released his first album, Jeff Lorber Fusion in 1977. The ...

Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook with Horace silver on piano at the Birdhouse in Chicago in December 1960. Photo by Laird Scott Junior Cook (1934-1992) occupies a paradoxical space, simultaneously one of ...