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Art Blakey plays the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands in 1990

Review: Indestructible Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Music • 9 hrs

Bobby Hutcherson: light-fingered vibes filigree in the company of the stout-sounding tenor player Joe Henderson and others

Album review: Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker

Music • 20 Jan

John Walsh: an admirable, gutsy quest for self-fulfillment through Flamenco guitar. (All photos Magda Kacperska)

Album review: John Walsh - Irlandalucía

Music • 19 Jan

Stanley Turrentine performs in Chicago, July 14, 1979

Album review Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At

Music • 9 hrs

Lou Donaldson performs with Pat Bianchi on the organ at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, on August 2, 2015

Album review: Lou Donaldson Alligator Boogaloo

Music • 12 Jan

John Coltrane: fizzing, bubbling out of the primordial earth on A Love Supreme

Album review - John Coltrane: A Love Supreme/Ballads

Features • 03 Nov 20

Jake Stanley: from County Cork, by way of the North of England, a purveyor of fresh-sounding songs with an earthy fabric

Jake Stanley - Fix up Yer Courage, Fasten Yer Smile

Features • 15 Oct 20

Tenor legend Hank Mobley shines on the previously unreleased Just Coolin.'

Review: Just Coolin' Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Features • 03 Sep 20

Gerald Clayton: Quincy is a big fan and Gerald's dad John was one of his "orchestration students"

Gerald Clayton Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard

Features • 18 Aug 20

Violinist Dominic Ingham (centre) and his Role Models band - exhilarating and worth repeated spins...

Album review: Dominic Ingham Role Models

Features • 11 Aug 20

Vox Clamantis: a haunting, radiant quality which harks back centuries

Cyrillus Kreek The Suspended Harp of Babel

Music Reviews • 01 Jul 20

Pianist Jon Balke: "sometimes just vague textures, sometimes solid..."

Album review: Jon Balke Discourses

Music Reviews • 11 Jun 20

Sharp-dressed piano-player: Aaron Diehl

Album review: Aaron Diehl - The Vagabond

Music • 26 Feb 20

Tony Williams, gifted, highly lyrical drummer, born Chicago, 1945, died Daly City, California 1997.

Tony Williams: Foreign Intrigue

Music • 05 Feb 20

Tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, trombonist Curtis Fuller with bandleader/drummer Art Blakey at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York in 1964

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Buhaina's Delight

Music • 29 Jan 20

Divinely-appointed trio: Hussain, McLaughlin, Mahadevan

McLaughlin, Mahadevan, Hussain - Is That So?

Music • 22 Jan 20

Alto saxophonist Lee Konitz performing in the Netherlands in 1992

Alone Together Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden

Music • 14 Jan 20

Julia Hülsmann: exquisite poise and a David Bowie cover in an album of challenging music

Album Review:Julia Hülsmann Quartet - Not far From Here

Music • 19 Dec 19

Still wowing the faithful: 67-year old John Scofield performing in Rome last February

Album review: John Scofield Hand Jive

Music • 18 Dec 19

Conor O'Sullivan: lyrical integrity

Conor O'Sullivan - His Mind Invents Its Own Tragedy

Album Review • 28 Nov 19

Charles Lloyd as he is today. The recordings under review catch him as a young tenor saxophonist and flute-player in 1967

Charles Lloyd Quartet - Montreux Jazz Festival 1967

Music • 26 Nov 19

Christy: Two sides live

Album review: Christy Moore - Magic Nights

Music • 26 Nov 19

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

Music • 14 Nov 19

John Coltrane: reworking recently recorded material for a film score

Blue World - John Coltrane

Music • 11 Nov 19

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

Chick Corea - Trilogy 2

Music • 05 Nov 19

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