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The passing of Paul Motian has again shown the truth in the adage that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.......... And reading t...

Despite how it may seem from the availability of everything on Youtube, jazz is scandalously underrepresented in the field of serious docume...

It’s been my privilege to know Dave Liebman for over twenty five years. Of course I’ve known him from his recordings long before that - ‘Loo...

I'm on the road for the next couple of weeks, so I'll be taking a break from attending to the blog during that time. Back in a while...

I have included several sound clips from the subject of this post - all are very short and are intended as a taster for the music on the alb...

So Branford is at it again ......... He gave his verdict on students a while back (‘students today are completely full of shit’), and now hi...

If, like me, you're a hard-core Miles and Coltrane fan, with a particular interest in the latter half of their careers, you will no doub...

Having spent the past few weeks writing a guitar concerto (more on this soon), it's so nice to come back and just play a standard..........

Recently I took part in a very interesting discussion as to whether jazz critics should be able to play jazz or not. I came down on the ...

The second part of my report on the recent IASJ meeting in Sao Paulo in July 2011. For part one go here Day 4 Today is a very Brazilian kind...

I recently attended the International Association of Schools of Jazz Meeting at the Conservatorio Souza Lima in Sao Paulo. The IASJ is an ...