Grammy award-winning composer and orchestra leader Maria Schneider is one of the cultural world’s most outspoken critics against the tech giants and one of jazz’s strongest advocates for musicians’ rights. So, as ‘Big Data’ plays an ever-increasing,...
As Radiohead’s seismic album Kid A celebrates its 20th anniversary on 2 October, leading UK jazz pianist Rick Simpson releases his own improv-heavy take on one of the Oxford band’s most dramatic and epoch defining recordings
Fifty years ago this month Miles Davis played the biggest gig of his career when he brought his groundbreaking new Bitches Brew band to the 1970 Isle of Wight Music Festival, still the largest ever music event to take place in the UK. Jon Newey was...
London’s famous 606 Club has come up with an innovative solution to the problem of live performance in lockdown. Rosie Hanley met the team to find out more
Upcoming Edinburgh singer-composer Georgia Cécile almost became a lawyer, but fortunately for jazz, the lure of music proved too strong, and she is about to record her all-originals debut album. Peter Quinn talks to her about carrying on a family...
Coming to prominence while a just teenager, and still only in his 30s, American jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire has already won a lifetime’s worth of awards and accolades. With the release of a superb new Blue Note album On The Tender Spot Of Every...
From shoebox bass drums, playing with cotton buds and livestreamed collaborations, Christine Hannigan discovers how a new generation of musicians are using tech, innovation and determination to survive and thrive in lockdown
On July 2, 1935 Teddy Wilson was the official leader on an historic recording session
One of the greatest saxophonists in jazz, Sonny Rollins has created an astonishing legacy on record. Here are just a few of the highlights
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