**** Cellist Shirley Smart has helped extend the number of unusual instruments that find a home in jazz, but she…

Jazz singing is the art that often beguiles with the idea that complexity is easy to deliver by substituting manner…

Lockdown has seen many UK jazz musicians struggling. But in Monmouthshire they’ve been paid their full fee at a ‘virtual’…

  Anglo-Italian saxophonist Tommaso Starace has long been standard-bearer for Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley, who himself has long been resident in…

A healthy musical culture is one that never leaves its historical achievements behind as though they counted for nothing. At…

There’s a sense in which the current Brecon Jazz Festival and Black Mountain Jazz’s Wall2Wall festival at Abergavenny are remnants…

Chris Byars, the New York saxophonist, composer and band leader, was displaying the jazz musician’s hard-nosed realism when he opined…

Following a sellout tour last year, Jeremy Hardy hits the road in 2018 with his new show, which sees him…

Matteo Marfoglia Omertà is a code of honor that places importance on silence, non-cooperation with authorities, and non-interference in the illegal…

There are at least two stories going on in Stephen Macdonald’s 35-year-old drama about the Great War and its effect…