Until she died, in January 1918, I had no problem thinking of Marlene VerPlanck as the finest female vocalist currently ...

BBC Sessions 1968-1970 (RANDB101) Once again, Nick Duckett’s RandB Records mines the rich vein of material from the BBC ...

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 Performing Rights Society – the body that has pursued music publishing rights since 1914 and is now styled PRS For Music ...

Thomas Melia reckons British pop star Raye’s reprise of familiar blues and soul moves is 'enough to draw emotion out of even ...

Veteran British concert promoters, Serious, well known for producing the EFG London Jazz Festival, are keen to get more ...

Welcome Back, Adam” – this is how the second concert in the jubilee season of the Kalisz Philharmonic was titled to ...

In November 2024 the seemingly indefatigable saxophonist Art Themen celebrates his 85th birthday and this record marks that ...

My baptism into live jazz began with concerts by three legendary pianists at what was then called the New Victoria ...

If you’re lilywhite and the Dutch Peter Bernstein and you got ambitions to set up a new project, better switch to ud or ehru ...

Young Anders Malta, a student in 2016, heard the visiting Ernie Wilkins Almost Big Band and was impressed. The Danish ...

Roger Cotterrell remembers an unsung 50s modernist, ultimately eclipsed when avant-garde focus shifted from composition to ...