Fifty years ago Michael Shera thought the centrepiece of Ellington's civil rights project 'pretentious and pompous'. First published in Jazz Journal January 1971 ...

Unlike the disappointing album he recorded with Stan Getz earlier in 1958, this date with a formidable group of New Yorkers finds Chet Baker in compelling form. His playing is far removed from his ...

Surman’s fourth solo album breaks no new ground but confirms his stature as one of today’s finest improvisers and arrangers, Surman overdubbing his own instrumental lines into position as if fronting ...

There was never any doubt that Duffy Jackson would become a jazz musician, specifically a drummer. The son of a famous jazz bassist, Chubby Jackson, he was given his first lessons at age four by Don ...

With this album, Weather Report restore interest and credibility. Past efforts have been guilty of all manner of vapid redundancy, but this has rich content, imagination, fire and passion. A shift of ...