Brit-jazz bass boss and Tomorrow’s Warriors co-founder Gary Crosby OBE turned 70 this year, but shows no sign of slowing down. He speaks to Thomas Rees about his lifelong fight for art, the secret to TW’s incredible success – and the brush with death...
Brit-jazz bass boss and Tomorrow’s Warriors co-founder Gary Crosby OBE turned 70 this year, but shows no sign of slowing down. He speaks to Thomas Rees about his lifelong fight for art, the secret to TW’s incredible success – and the brush with death...
Possessing a Midas touch when it came to plugging jazz musicians into the electric era, keyboardist Jason Miles has worked with some of the biggest names in jazz, soul, rock and pop, not least sprinkling sonic fairy dust on Miles Davis’s...
Cope’s gifts for musical storytelling and marshalling a big band are gaining attention and plaudits from jazz lovers, particularly with Every Journey, her latest album with her group Ensemble C
Eddie Myer – bassist, Jazzwise contributor and Senior Lecturer in Postgraduate Studies at BIMM in Brighton – answers some of the burning questions about the daunting digital music universe
A singer’s singer like no other, Betty Carter could do it all – and her live masterpiece The Audience With Betty Carter made it into Jazzwise's book 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World at No.65. Stuart Nicholson explains why we all need to remember...
First emerging as part of the New Grass Revival and his Grammy-winning group The Flecktones in the late 1980s, banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck has traversed the upper echelons of jazz and bluegrass as well as forging a fruitful partnership with the late...
Pianist Eric Scott Reed is known for his work with the likes of Cassandra Wilson, Clark Terry, Christian McBride and Ron Carter, and has a new album out on the Smoke Records imprint
Sax giant Joe Lovano nominates Meditations, a late John Coltrane masterpiece, as his musical epiphany
Peter Jones visits the Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen’s equivalent to Ronnie Scott’s and a favourite stop off for touring musicians from abroad
