Sara Serpa is a singer of a different order who loosely embodies a strand of “the tradition” in which the taking of risks is ...

Lillian “Lil” Hardin Armstrong is a name most jazz aficionados recognize, having read it in the annals and footnotes of jazz history, but often mistakenly gloss over it in passing as a detail in the ...

Historically there haven’t been too many jazz harmonica players – the blues collared the market. The name of virtuoso Larry ...

Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins’s third album for Blue Note is a big departure for him. As a concept, it’s played out on a broad ...

I don’t rate myself,” asserts saxophonist Art Themen. “I’m just a jobbing musician who’s been very, very lucky.” It’s an ...

In his From March 1979 the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer – a favourites of such distinguished Scandinavians as Jan Garbarek ...

Dissolving Patterns They say : Veterans of the Scandinavian jazz and improvisation scene – pianist Mathias Landæus, bassist Nina de Heney, and drummer Kresten Osgood – have spent a decade cultivating ...

Deborah Silver walked on to the stand at Crazy Coqs, grabbed the audience by the scruff of the neck and didn’t let go til ...

Canadian-born composer and pianist Renee Rosnes is widely respected for a series of small-group albums she made for Blue Note ...