Set 1: Country Blues and Ragtime Blues Guitar 1926–30 (MSESET1 – Buddy Boy Hawkins, Bo Weavil Jackson, Peg Leg Howell, Texas Alexander… ) Set 2: Country Blues ...

A member of Kris Davis’ progressive Pyroclastic Records stable, pianist Angelica Sanchez has gathered together some big hitters on the New York jazz scene, such as Chris Speed (tenor sax, clarinet), ...

Ah, Blue Note – hallowed home of hard bop, trove of smokin’ classics by Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard and Horace Silver… But, of course, some 21st-century music fans know different: it’s ...

MOBO-Award winning saxophonist Yolanda Brown receiving her honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of East London at a ceremony at the Barbican on December 2nd from the University’s Chancellor ...

Bass player Petter Eldh adds a tremendous punch to any group he plays in. He has played with Django Bates in his Belovèd Bird trio, and now plays and tours regularly with Kit Downes and James Maddren ...

ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is one of the most, if not the most, recognisable record labels in all music. Established by Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969, it has a reputation for outstanding ...

Although I thought that alto giant Tony Kofi‘s Portrait of Cannonball was a great opener at this year’s Swanage Festival in July, a few gigs down the line to polish things up plus a packed house, of ...