Dazzling Cuban expat violinist Omar Puente takes sizeably progressive steps on his latest eclectic longplayer, Best Foot Forward, an album dedicated to the memory of his late wife, Debbie Purdy, who continues to inspire and influence his work.
Interview ow in his seventy-eighth year, Dave Brubeck still recalls, with rueful amusement, the long, hard slog which preceded the eventual success of the quartet, and some of the misconceptions which still prevail about that climb to fame.
Kamasi Washington’s audaciously ambitious triple-album The Epic was arguably the jazz event of last year, a launching pad for a continually ascending career trajectory that’s seen him win awards aplenty, wow audiences around the globe and even land a landmark gig at the BBC Proms this August.
Transatlantic troupe The Impossible Gentlemen return with their latest long-player, Let’s Get Deluxe, a stellar suite of forward-thinking contemporary jazz.
Jasper Høiby’s Fellow Creatures, featuring horn-section stars Laura Jurd and Mark Lockheart, finds the Danish bassist pushing beyond the tightly-wound trio parameters of his work with Phronesis and into the realms of extended ensemble barrier-busting as heard on their newly released eponymous album.
A brave choice, a musical epiphany and a near tragedy were the critical factors in the musical life of pianist and composer Nikki Yeoh.
Singing sensation Gregory Porter has come a long way since the UK release of his debut album, Water, in 2011 and his first ever worldwide front cover in Jazzwise in March 2012.
For his latest trio work, In Movement, drum doyen Jack DeJohnette has drawn upon old family ties to conjure a distinctly contemporary-sounding conversation.
Jason Rebello appeared to have it all – a burgeoning media profile along with a successful, lucrative musical career playing alongside his hero Wayne Shorter and major mainstream operators such as Jeff Beck and Sting.
Former Miles Davis saxophonist turned acclaimed solo artist Kenny Garrett releases his new album, Do Your Dance, this month, with its burning mixture of turbo-swing and Afro-latin jams hotfooting the distance between rhumba and rumination, boogie and brainwork.
