A great jazz musician can reduce himself to nothing if he succumbs to the false idea that he is a good composer. Many a jazz album has been spoiled because somebody on the session decides to record ...

Somewhat curiously, this mostly lyrical session, simultaneously spiritually oriented, earthy and abstracted, opens with Epilogue, around 40 seconds of solo saxophone meditation featuring the eerie, ...

Sanborn has a live, arresting tone in any situation, but it’s at its best in r’n’b and that’s why the Best Of CD is best of ...

Forty years ago, New Age music arrived and was conflated by some with jazz. Michael Tucker looked for the connection ...

Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert particularly liked the composition testimony of writers such as Randy Brecker, Chick Corea and ...

Forty years ago, as he toured with Sting, the acclaimed saxophonist talked about pop music, the music press, Wayne Shorter, ...

Thirty years ago, Michael Tucker said the original, 1975 Gateway album was the trio's best - for its sheer freshness of touch ...

Hannah Horton is currently touring her new album Stories On The Wind. The multi-instrumentalist focuses on tenor and baritone ...

Sixty years ago, Barry McRae said the quality of the alto-sax sections of this album made up for the violin and trumpet work ...

Takin’ Off Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s legendary studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and released just weeks later, ...

Forty years ago, Mike Hennessey enjoyed the memoirs of the pioneering French jazz advocate and record producer Charles Delaunay ...

The Jazz Crusaders have been functioning for some time now in their merry old soul groove, and as enjoyable as the earlier ...