Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner thought Bill Le Sage's Directions In Jazz would come to be seen as 'the most invigorating and ...

Sixty years ago, Steve Voce, despite concern for the artist's family, gave priority to service to the reader and found that ...

Sixty years ago, Sinclair Traill acclaimed Franklin's big, strong, gospel-driven voice and sensed the advent of another major ...

Sixty years ago, Sinclair Traill heard the future smooth-jazz pianist doing the avant thing and offending 'both the ears and ...

Sixty years ago, Steve Voce, recovering from his Ayler baptism, enjoyed hearing Kirk playing, singing, laughing and shouting ...

Those outside of Norway may be unfamiliar with bassist Agnar Aspaas (b.1955), and if they’ve heard of him at all it might be ...

Indelible as it may be, the Louisiana delta doesn’t have a monopoly on a tradition of musical cross-breeding. South Florida ...

Trumpeter Guy Barker, well-known as in the vanguard of the first so-called British jazz revival of the 1980s, when he played ...

Monk’s third solo album (the first was Thelonious Alone and the second Thelonious Himself) came about because producer Orrin ...

If there actually are any contemporaries of mine out there, readers who recall the popular music landscape before rock got ...

This Danish release follows hot on the heels of last year’s issue on Timeless of the fourth album in the Eastern Rebellion series (reviewed in JJI, November 1984). Third Set was actually re­corded six ...

Jazz Journal critics were invited to allot 100 points to 10 choices from the albums reviewed in Jazz Journal in 2018, with a maximum of 20 points per choice. After unhurried, seemly and properly ...