The essence of me is writing songs and expressing experiences or what I see around me and just trying to spread some happiness,” declares London singer Emily Saunders. Certainly songs like Blue Skies ...

I passed on a recent sold-out gig by Andy Sheppard and the Espen Eriksen trio at Chichester Jazz Club. Why? So I could keep ...

Bassist Joe Fonda might lead this set and wrote its seven pieces, but all ears will be directed toward his featured guest, ...

The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music CDGRE 1113X) Fame came relatively late for virtuoso trumpeter Kenny Wheeler. He was 38 years ...

Oh People is a quintet consisting of five young, highly respected Danish musicians who came together for this debut album ...

Ariane Racicot – winner of the 2022-2023 Révélation Radio-Canada prize for jazz – announces her second album Danser avec le ...

James Baldwin (1924-1987) is considered by many to be one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Born into ...

Lillian “Lil” Hardin Armstrong is a name most jazz aficionados recognize, having read it in the annals and footnotes of jazz ...

Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins’s third album for Blue Note is a big departure for him. As a concept, it’s played out on a broad ...

In his From March 1979 the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer – a favourites of such distinguished Scandinavians as Jan Garbarek ...

I don’t rate myself,” asserts saxophonist Art Themen. “I’m just a jobbing musician who’s been very, very lucky.” It’s an ...

Sara Serpa is a singer of a different order who loosely embodies a strand of “the tradition” in which the taking of risks is ...