This two-CD set is a reissue of the original LP album, with most of CD2 containing 18 added  bonus tracks. For this ...

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

Mingus Big Band: The Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions Vol. 2 (Candid Records CAN3346) Since 1991, the Mingus Big Band, formed as an extension to Mingus ...

The Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions Vol. 2 (Candid Records CAN3346) Since 1991, the Mingus Big Band, formed as an ...

“It was terrible! The nerves! I was so nervous! So, so nervous!” exclaims New York singer Samara Joy of her first visit to the ...

The Bronx-born singer who made her debut on UK label Whirlwind talks about her new album Portrait - the first she has been ...

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

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

One of the last survivors of the golden age of bebop – the 1950s – tenor saxophonist and composer Benny Golson died on ...

Stormy weather and turbulent seas lashed South Bay’s Victorian coastal spa on the first day of the 21st Scarborough Jazz Festival. It was held from 27 to 29 September – luckily, the remainder of the ...