This year’s EFG London Jazz Festival brings a huge range of global stars to the capital. Alyn Shipton spoke to its director Pelin Opcin to get the low down on the event’s panoramic vision of jazz today
Late last year, renowned writer-photographer Michael Jackson spoke to Wayne Shorter at length, resulting in one of the great saxophonist’s last-ever interviews
The Canadian Jazz Collective have been delighting audiences across Europe and their homeland with their sizzling live shows and a splendid debut album. Kevin Whitlock speaks to the three principals
With the release of Colour Of Sound, her most expansive album to date, Zoe Rahman tells Kevin Le Gendre about how the music was forged from the whole spectrum of human experience. Photography by Ilze Kitshoff
The bassist extraordinaire speaks to Stuart Nicholson about making music with Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Grover Washington Jr, Frank Sinatra and countless others
Mica Millar, one of the UK’s most acclaimed new vocalists, tells Brian Glasser how a Stevie Wonder compilation given to her as a child helped her become a singer
Ahead of the 10th Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Nick Hasted speaks to its founder Ciro Romano to discover the secret of the event’s success
A towering figure in the bass world since he burst onto the global jazz scene in 1970s as a founding member of Return To Forever and with his classic solo album School Days, Stanley Clarke is now back with a new band of Young Turks, N 4EVER
Saxophonist Mette Henriette is one of the most intriguing artists on the ECM roster, a musician of ambition and vision
With the 2023 edition of the Cheltenham Jazz Festival starting today - Alyn Shipton spoke to adventurous artistic programmer Tony Dudley-Evans - who's been involved since the event's inception and steps down this year - and asked him to look back at his fondest memories and forward this year's personal highlights
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