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

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

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

Miles Kington famously remarked that he travelled from Wales to London for jazz, only to discover that jazz had decamped…