Jazz FM, the London-based radio station, has reinstated its jazz awards scheme for 2025, with categories including soul and blues acts of the year. Nick Pitts, Jazz FM content director, says of the ...

In Brassroots Democracy, author Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below”, embracing the Haitian revolution, post ...

In a previous column I reviewed a couple of albums by Satoko Fujii, commented on the astonishing statistics of her output (over 100 albums as leader in 29 years, plus her work as a member of various ...

The full lineup for the 2025 Cheltenham Jazz Festival (30 April-5 May) has been announced as follows below. Aside from the main stage shows in the “Festival Village” at Montpellier Gardens, there will ...

Trumpeter Higgs brought his green trumpet to honour Miles Davis in a set with Adrian York, Paul Whitten and Vince Dunn touching on bebop, modal, the 1949 nonet and the Gil Evans partnership. Report by ...

Sporting a green trumpet à la Miles, Paul Higgs started his set with Milestones (the streamlined modal tune from 1958) and immediately followed it ...

“Only posterity will show whether Howard Riley is a European Cecil Taylor, an avant-garde John Lewis, a jazz Stockhausen or the Howard Riley” reported Martin Davidson after hearing the pianist at the ...