Ireland’s greatest writer meets her greatest jazz musician. Guitarist Louis Stewart’s suite, based on Joyce’s Ulysses, was ...

Five-Way Split. Left to right: Rob Barron (p), Quentin Collins (t), Matt Home (d), Matyas Hofecker (b) and Vasilis Xenopoulos (s) According to trumpeter & flugelhornist Quentin Collins, this ...

Turnpike There are many strands to the music of Vancouver-based guitarist and oud player Gordon Grdina, and while some of his projects lean more towards jazz, indie-rock, Arabic classical music or ...

American role models notwithstanding, 30 years ago Barry McRae heard the BSQ of Elton Dean, Paul Dunmall, Simon Picard and ...

Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert relished the landmark solo on Devil Take The Hindmost and the cut-glass heavy metal riffs but ...

Forty years ago, JJ covered two concerts - Loose Tubes and Courtney Pine - at the Camden Jazz Week, both reflecting the ...

Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert was pleased to be acquainted with the early work of a saxophonist who, by 1986, had become a ...

Fifty years ago, Michael Shera found strings of bass solos and Pedersen's compositions rather dull but seemed to miss two incandescent and redeeming bop solos on Cheryl ...

Liston-Smith's mid-70s records have become articles of faith for acid-jazzers, but 50 years ago, Roger Dean didn't get as far as musicological analysis of his latest, deeming it 'extremely monotonous' ...