On their eighth album We Are All, Scandi-Brit jazz trio Phronesis continue to develop their shared musical language, while taking potshots at racist demagogues and looming eco-disaster, while seeking sanctuary in family and nature.
Since the release of her acclaimed 2016 debut, Soul Eyes, Kandace Springs' combination of jazz, R&B, soul, classical and pop has garnered widespread praise and celebrity attention from artists such as Prince and Gregory Porter.
Building on a musical partnership which blossomed when they were both part of the Billy Hart Quartet, Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson have now gone in search of the nexus where the sounds of Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz meet chamber music on their album, Temporary Kings.
Trio HLK are one of the most distinctive voices to appear on the Scottish jazz scene in recent times.
Wayne Shorter's new triple-album, Emanon, finds the 85-year-old legend still looking forward after nearly 60 years of musical innovation.
With a reputation for high-octane tenor horn since the 1990s, the Californian-born Donny McCaslin's career rocketed to another level following his band's major contribution to the late David Bowie's 2016 swansong, Blackstar.
Gwyneth Herbert's 2004 major label debut, Bittersweet and Blue, had her pegged as a standards singer, but her career since has traversed a myriad of multi-dimensional projects across music, theatre and the written word.
Composer, bandleader and educator Julia Joseph is one of the hardest working musicians operating on this side of the pond.
The unexpected news of the existence of an unreleased John Coltrane studio session, now issued as Both Directions at Once – The Lost Album, is sure to get the jazz world’s pulse racing.
Following his critically acclaimed triple-album, 2015’s The Epic, LA saxophonist has circumnavigated the globe with a seemingly endless series of concerts that have cemented his reputation as the go-to spiritual jazz beacon for a younger generation of devotees.
