Jazzahead! was back to what felt like full strength this year, and the numbers bear that out with organisers reporting that ...

When Shabaka Hutchings jumped onstage and started wailing at a Soccer96 gig, The Comet Is Coming was born, creating the thrusting UK jazz scene’s sci-fi vanguard. Prophesying apocalypse and rebirth ...

An underrated Guadeloupe tenor saxophonist with an earthy pan- Caribbean reach to his music gives good value, basing his new CD on voodoo traditions, and featuring chants and vocals.

We live in a fusion age, so be it food, clothes, lifestyle or car names, the concept’s ubiquity has gone well beyond its bell-bottomed volume busting big-haired jazz-rock roots of the 1970s. Yet it ...

It can be an act of courage for a jazz musician to take a rock or pop number and turn it into something else. Popular tunes may last for reasons other than their melodic complexity: few of them ...

This year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival kicks off from 30 April and runs until 5 May with a packed programme at venues around ...

Playing just three songs in a 45 minute set, Gary Crosby’s new project Africa Space Programme is very much a lock in and listen hard affair. The exemplary Winston Clifford’s drums form a superb axis ...