NYJO Photo credit: BBC/ Chris Christodoulou The complete set of ten official pictures is  HERE Prom 46: NYJO + soloist Benjamin Gros...

Elina Duni – Partir (ECM 670 8641. CD Review by Jane Mann) Partir is Albanian-born, Swiss singer/songwriter Elena Duni ’s fifth alb...

NYJO performing Laura Jurd's The Earth Keeps Spinning Photo credit and © BBC/ Chris Christodoulou This is the complete set of ...

Aretha Franklin at the Obama inauguration in 2009 Photo Cecilio Ricardo, U.S. Air Force, Public Domain Aretha Franklin's family...

It is announced this morning that Hamburg-based Bauer Media is to acquire JazzFM. Financial terms have not been disclosed. Here is the ...

Chet Baker – Live in London Volume II (Ubuntu UBU0014.2 CDs. CD Review by Peter Jones) Chet Baker completists need deep pockets: he...

Sheila Jordan - who will be celebrating her 90th birthday Photo credit: OhWeh/ Creative Commons Pizza Express has just announced its...

Matthew Read Trio - Anecdotes Vol. II 
 (BOD: 002. CD review by Nick Davies) 
 
 Mathew Read ’s music has been described as a multitud...

Joanna Wallfisch at Big Sur in 2016 Publicity picture Joanna Wallfisch –  The Great Song Cycle Song Cycle (The Space, Surgeon’s Hall...

Mike Gibbs Band featuring John Scofield – Symphony Hall, Birmingham 1991 (Dusk Fire DUSKCD116. CD review by Peter Bacon) Listening to...

Ken Pickering Photo from @coastaljazz The TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival @coastaljazz put out this sad message on Saturda...

Congratulations to Andrew Robb , originally from Edinburgh, who has just won first prize in the jazz bass competition at BASS2018 LUCCA,...

The Drayton Court Festival ad Dusk Photo credit: John Ross Photography Dick Esmond, who for many years ran the Ealing Jazz Festival, ...

New York All-Stars (featuring Eric Alexander and Harold Mabern) – Burnin’ In London (Ubuntu UBU0012. CD review by Mark McKergow) This ...

Nat Steele – Portrait Of The Modern Jazz Quartet (Trio Records TR598. CD review by Simon Scott) The sleeve note for this album advise...

Nitty Scott Photo credit: BBC/Chris Christodoulou BBC Proms 35: New York: Sound of a City (Royal Albert Hall, 8 August 2018. Late ni...

Mimika Orchestra Divinities of the Earth and the Waters (PDV029. CD Review by Peter Jones) Think of them as the Art Ensemble of Zagreb...

John Bailey - Oneiric Sounds (Outhøuse Records Outhouse 03. CD review by Patrick Hadfield) Oneiric Sounds is the latest record by gui...

Miriam Gould as Rachel Gould Photo credit: India Roper-Evans Empty Room by Miriam Gould Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, 8 August 2018, ...

Gwyneth Herbert with Ned Cartwright at one of their four shows in Rochester in 2018. Sam Burgess is off-camera. Photo courtesy of CGI R...

Matthew Herbert's Brexit Big Band Publicity picture The Anglo-Saxons will be heading for Saxony in the Autumn. Peter Bacon report...

Kris Davis & Craig Taborn - Octopus (Pyroplastic Records. CD Review by Alison Bentley) Kris Davis and Craig Taborn on this ne...