Suzanne Waldowski Roche is Executive Producer of Bay Area-based ‘Jazz At the Ballroom’ and founder of the Songbook Inc. label. A life-long lover of the Great American Songbook, Suzanne jumped at the ...

Supernovae are explosions that outshine anything else around. They are also essential to the formation of new planets by scattering the elements essential for new stars and planets. Alto saxophonist J ...

Roberta Flack’s ”Montreux Years” go all the way from 1971 right through to 2008. Do the math: that’s an improbable span of thirty-seven years. What these tracks show is Flack’s genius for inviting the ...

JazzFest Berlin continued its tradition of pushing the envelope of what is happening in jazz and improvised music today in its 2026 programme. It was a programme of considerable variety from which ...

A couple of months ago, I was at a celebration of Korean culture showcasing recitals of traditional Korean music. One recital ...

Ace Records is one of Britain’s most enterprising and rewarding record labels. They are masters of the well targeted ...

Nicola Angelucci (b.1979) is one of the most established drummers of the middle generation of Italian jazz musicians. He has ...

It’s hard sometimes to approach music without preconceptions, especially if the name on the cover is familiar. Drummer and ...

It’s late afternoon on 31 October at the Hundred Years Gallery, with Halloween looming. Trick or Treat? Percussionist Mark ...

Welcome back to my top five gig picks this month! We’ll be looking at some of the most exciting performances happening across ...

Jazz Cafe Posk in King St near Hammersmith is such a welcoming year-round venue presenting a broad jazz programme, and it was ...

Anthony Braxton and his legacy dominated Day 1 of this year's JazzFest Berlin. At the pre-concert Artist Talk James Fei, ...