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Trumpeter Donald Byrd and his group The Blackbyrds perform on the TV show Soul Train, sometime around 1977 in LA

Review: Donald Byrd - Ethiopian Knights

John Coltrane: reworking recently recorded material for a film score

Blue World - John Coltrane

What's the flight-time, guys?Chick in Cleveland, sometime in 2016..

Chick Corea - Trilogy 2

Vyvienne Long: vulnerability and insidious power

Vyvienne Long - A Lifetime of High Fives

Drummer Roy Haynes performs in Newport, Rhode Island in 2009

Roy Haynes Quartet - Out of the Afternoon

Enrico Rava and Joe Lovano: two jazz greats live in Rome

Album review: Roma - Enrico Rava, Joe Lovano

Ethan Iverson Quartet, from left to right, Street, Harrell, Iverson, McPherson.

Ethan Iverson - Common Practice

McCoy Tyner performs at North Sea Jazz festival July 2017 in Rotterdam

McCoyTyner Trio - Inception

Avishai Cohen, Yonathan Avishai - the conversation from Tel Aviv by way of Lugano

Avishai Cohen, Yonathan Avishai - Playing the Room

Music Reviews / 19 Sep

Pierce Turner: rare gift, a kind of divine intervention in music

Album review: Pierce Turner - Vinegar Hill

Music Reviews / 18 Sep

Archie Shepp: gutsy sax blowing from the man who is still performing at 82

Album Review: Archie Shepp - Fire Music

Sitting pretty but noli me tangere - Miles in 1986

Album review: Miles Davis Rubberband

Bley, Peacock, Motian: the hard stuff, no compromises. Much.

When Will The Blues Leave - Bley, Peacock, Motian

Music Reviews / 28 Aug

Donnacha Dennehy: the composer's ambitious new work commemorates The Great Famine through two voices and a 20-piece ensemble

Music review: Donnacha Dennehy The Hunger

Would that other bruiser behemoths could throw the dice with the same conviction Photo: Alexandria Crahan-Conway lores

Boiler suits you sirs! Slipknot have returned in style

Album Review / 16 Aug

Monkey House: left to right, Mark Kelso, drums and percussion; Don Breithaupt, singer, keys; Pat Kilbride, bass; Justin Abedin, guitars.

Album review: Monkey House - Friday

Album Review / 03 Aug

French-born pianist Michel Petrucciani

Michel Petrucciani - 3 Essential Albums

Music Reviews / 25 Jul

Alan Barnes: sax player extraordinare releases birthday bash album

Alan Barnes + Eleven - 60th Birthday Celebration

Bill Frisell Thomas Morgan - Epistrophy

Album Review / 18 Jul

Exotic instrumentation: Ensemble Supersonus with Marco Ambrosini, second from right.

Marco Ambrosini/ Ensemble Supersonus - Resonances

Music Reviews / 16 Jul

Bob and the band, Somsen, Sheppard, Scott and Beasley

Bob Sheppard - The Fine Line

Music Reviews / 15 Jul

Chet Baker in the mid-fifties

Chet Baker: 3 Essential Albums

Petrella, Aarset, Rabbia: ice floes of sound

Rabbia, Petrella, Aarset - Lost River

Herbie Hancock in recent years - Now aged 79, as a 24-year-old he released one of his greatest albums, Empyrean Isles.

Herbie Hancock: 3 Essential Albums

Album Review / 13 Jul

Wayne Shorter circa 1960

Wayne Shorter - 3 Essential Albums

Album Review / 07 Jun

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