The Chosen One

There’s something exiting about enduring groups whose members are prolific, busy and far-ranging in their individual activities but return on a regular, if occasional basis to a beloved project. That’s…

Perhaps three years ago Tomorrow’s Warriors founder (and lest we forget the first ever jazz recipient of the Queen’s Medal for Music) Gary Crosby took me aside at a gig…

Yet another shape-shifting and wholly original album for the German born saxophonist and composer who has found her natural musical home on the progressive New York scene via an exciting…

  It’s quite a statement that for their first album in five years and their debut on the Blue Note label The Branford Marsalis Quartet have chosen to exclusively record…

  One of the breakout jazz acts of 2024 was LA’s SML ( Small Medium Large). Two thirds of this new trio – saxophonist Josh Johnson and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann…

The fine, young, UK-based players keep coming! Seeing Ezra Collective collecting a BRIT a few weeks ago felt like a great accolade not just for the phenomenal band themselves but…

Blue Note Supergroup return with excellent 3rd album

Blue Note Supergroup return with excellent 3rd album

  The super-prolific, genre-dodging, powerhouse tenor king that is James Brandon Lewis delivers again with a trio album dedicated to Don Cherry and Amiri Baraka. Informed by the rhythms and…

Saxophonist Marshall Allen has just won a place in the Guinness Book of Records. At 100 years old he is, by some good distance, the oldest person EVER to release…

  Kenny Wheeler is one the great original compositional voices of contemporary jazz. The use of the present tense is deliberate because the Canadian born, but English adopted trumpet player…

  To introduce this extraordinary project it feels right to lead with Ambrose Akinmusire’s own words about the project: “This album is about the fears and struggles I personally face,…