Swedish guitar, organ and drums plus guests play with strong technique and invention on melodic sequences over swing and funk ...

Bruce Crowther noted that the not so early Murphy still approached music with wit, under­standing and breathtaking gusto ...

The American bassist and singer sets the words of writer and activist James Baldwin as spoken word, song and church service ...

US flautist and Malian kora player find and extend the common ground between West African and North American vernacular music ...

Richard Palmer found nothing that qualified as jazz in Corea's record but recommended it to any committed jazz listener ...

Mark Gilbert noticed that Decoy was the most arranged of Davis's comeback albums and marked by John Scofield's contributions ...

The most striking thing about Re­joicing is that Metheny plays closer to the jazz mainstream than on any of his recordings ...

NY band featuring traditional piano trio and suona mix post-bop with oriental reverie and an abstract reharmonisation of ...

Burnett James really admired the musicality of Pass's solo work but thought he needed a better tone and action ...

Fifty years ago the US avant-gardist Milo Fine lamented the effect of partisan politics on jazz, hoping that music would ...

Singer and bassist Farnon led Dave Newton (p) and Phil Johnson (d) in a set including GAS classics and Stevie Wonder’s For ...

Barry McRae enjoyed what was essentially a jazz record, featuring Gato Barbieri, Julie Tippetts, Dave Holland and Paul Motian ...