Swedish swing-based trombonist and trumpeter Gunhild Carling is a talented composer who plays flute, harmonica, banjo, ...

I have never considered the month of October to be associated with jazz trios but for some unknown reason the bands I’ve ...

Pianist Tord Gustavsen was born in Oslo in 1970. He studied music at Oslo and Trondheim universities, then made his highly ...

Simply put this is the graphic novel version of the 2023 movie of the same name that centres around the disappearance of ...

R&B, blues, folk, rock and popular – and also some original material. To all the songs on this album Wilson brings a highly ...

Among Allan Holdsworth’s refer­ences are jobs with Tony Wil­liams’ Lifetime, Soft Machine, Bill Bruford and John Stevens. In ...

Gail Thompson has assembled a very useful big band and together with Andy Macintosh provided some good tunes for it to play.

As evening blurs into night, technicoloured lettering slithers around the concrete bulk of LOCH in Wuppertal. A sandwich ...

The Melbourne International Jazz Festival aspires to be recognised as a world-class jazz festival. This year, it got it ...

Superlatives are notorious in jazz criticism, but Molde really is a very special event in the jazz calendar. What musicians and fans alike appreci­ate about Molde is that it has always stayed faithful ...

Trumpeter turned arranger Quincy Jones – best known to the general public as the producer of hit Michael Jackson albums after ...

There’s a rumour going around that the life of a music reviewer is only a tad less rewarding than that of Tom Cruise, Andrew ...