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Jazz
Playtime
Jazz preview / 4 May 2026
Playtime at The Outhouse
4 May 2026

ANGUS REID recommends that you discover a uniquely intimate community venue in central Edinburgh for an evening of beer and ambitious jazz

groove
Book Review / 27 March 2026
Revolutionary jazz
27 March 2026

ROGER McKENZIE grooves to the message that jazz supports, expresses and sparks fresh political movements and ideas

sanders
Jazz Preview / 27 March 2026
Democracy and the drums
27 March 2026

CHRIS SEARLE urges you not to miss Mark Sanders’ three night residency at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London

connection
Interview / 4 March 2026
‘Every human should have the right to emigrate’
4 March 2026

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Nicaraguan guitarist OMAR RIOS MELENDEZ

CS
Music / 2 March 2026
Jazz album reviews with Chris Searle: March 2, 2026
2 March 2026

Releases from Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Maggie Nicols/Robert Mitchell/Alya Al Sultani, and Gordon Beck Trio and Quintet

monk
Jazz preview / 19 January 2026
Monk in London
19 January 2026

CHRIS SEARLE urges you not to miss two powerful performers playing three nights that will celebrate the great pianist/composer Thelonious Monk

cs 2025
Best of 2025 / 17 December 2025
Best of 2025: Jazz albums
17 December 2025

CHRIS SEARLE picks his favourite albums of the year

hargrave
Interview / 5 November 2025
The global movement for women playing drums
5 November 2025

Chris Searle speaks to producer/film-maker RITA HARGRAVE about the new album Renegade Queens

CS
Album Reviews / 18 August 2025
Jazz album reviews with Chris Searle: August 18, 2025
18 August 2025

Reviews of the Neil Charles Quartet, the Freddie Hubbard Quintet, and the Olie Brice Quartet

dankworth
Interview / 23 July 2025
‘I'm not a folk singer or jazz singer, I'm a singer of songs’
23 July 2025

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to vocalist Jacqui Dankworth

CS albums
Album Reviews / 7 July 2025
Jazz album reviews with Chris Searle: July 7, 2025
7 July 2025

Re-releases from Bobby Wellins/Kenny Wheeler Quintet, Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippet/Louis Moholo-Moholo, and Charles Mingus Quintet

themen
Interview / 18 June 2025
‘I love them both, the surgery and the music. I express them both as I’m playing’
18 June 2025

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to saxophonist and retired NHS orthopaedic surgeon ART THEMEN

Men’s football / 4 April 2025
From Spurs to Sound Waves
4 April 2025
CHRIS SEARLE interviews saxophonist Chris Williams about the extraordinary electro-acoustic album LEDLEY - a bold fusion of Jazz, football, and community spirit
Live Music Review / 25 March 2025
Happy jazz
25 March 2025
MARK TURNER is staggered by a gifted jazz pianist from the Welsh Valleys
TOMORROW'S WARRIOR: Nubya Garcia
Live Music Review / 19 March 2025
Self-healing technologies
19 March 2025
GEORGE FOGARTY is mesmerised by the messages made when jazz is played by people who grew up steeped in jungle and hip-hop
STRONG SOCIAL CONSCIENCE: Zara McFarlane
Jazz album review / 19 March 2025
McFarlane salutes Vaughan
19 March 2025
MARK TURNER is thrilled by the the British singer’s tribute to the late great Sarah Vaughan
Ineza
Interview / 26 February 2025
‘I enjoy the company of women musicians. It creates a different, supportive atmosphere on stage’
26 February 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Rwanda-born jazz vocalist INEZA
CAPTIVATING LIGHTNESS: Morgan Bailey in All Blood Runs Red
Theatre Review / 26 February 2025
The life and times of Eugene Bullard
26 February 2025
SUSAN DARLINGTON applauds a one-man show that navigates racist barriers to tell the story of the black pilot, boxer and jazz musician
Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston, London
Live Music Review / 12 February 2025
Universal jazz kitchen
12 February 2025
CHRIS SEARLE samples the Kris Davis Trio at the Vortex and recommends highlights from the forthcoming programme
Peter Somuah
Interview / 5 February 2025
Living the highlife
5 February 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Ghanaian trumpeter PETER SOMUAH
Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson in concert at the Vortex with the T
Jazz / 28 January 2025
Upcoming jazz with Chris Searle: January 28, 2025
28 January 2025
An unlikely venue hosts a memorable concert, and has future treats in store
Nate Wooley
Interview / 6 January 2025
‘Burlap Heroes are Saul Bellow’s persons struggling just to exist’
6 January 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with US trumpeter NATE WOOLEY
Culture / 12 December 2024
Best of 2024: Jazz albums
12 December 2024
CHRIS SEARLE picks his favourites
Pat Metheny plays the Barbican
Music review / 19 November 2024
Continue the research
19 November 2024
SIMON DUFF is transported by the sweetly seductive tones of experimental guitarist Pat Metheny
Music / 30 October 2024
Jazz album reviews with Chris Searle: October 30, 2024
30 October 2024
New releases from Miguel Zenon, Angelica Sanchez/Chad Taylor, Paul Dunmall
Album reviews / 14 October 2024
Jazz albums with Chris Searle: October 14, 2024
14 October 2024
New releases from Etienne Charles, Jason Anick/Jason Yeager and Elliott Sharp/Sally Gates/Tashi Dorji
Naseem Alatrash
Interview / 2 October 2024
‘Because of the Second Intifada and lack of violin teachers the cello became an alternative’
2 October 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to jazz cellist NASEEM ALATRASH of the IZE Trio
Duck Baker, Incus Festival, 2009
Interview / 18 September 2024
‘Jazz was created for and by the African-American community and was always political by its very nature’
18 September 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to celebrated US guitarist DUCK BAKER
Jim Mullen
Interview / 4 September 2024
Jim Thumb
4 September 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Glaswegian guitarist JIM MULLEN
Culture / 2 September 2024
Jazz album reviews with Chris Searle: September 2, 2024
2 September 2024
James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Art Tatum Trio and Kevin Figes
Dickey Betts in 1978
Music / 26 August 2024
Album reviews: August 27, 2024
26 August 2024
KEVIN BRYAN, CHRIS SEARLE and TONY BURKE review new releases from Dickey Betts, Little Johnny England, Greenslade, Benet McLean, Sam Newbould, Sofia Jernberg/Alexander Hawkins, compilation: Walking To New Orleans, compilation: This Is Goldwax: 1964-1968, Jack Bruce
Nduduzo Makhathini performing in Amsterdam on 28 October 202
Interview / 21 August 2024
‘We are looking at spiritual affinities and how these liberate and at the same time transcend the political’
21 August 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to South African pianist NDUDUZO MAKHATINI 
Tenor saxophonist Nat Birchell and the Unity Ensemble
Interview / 24 July 2024
‘I aim for a sound that conjures up vistas of sunrises and wide open landscapes’
24 July 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to self-taught tenor saxophonist Nat Birchall  
POSSESSED: John Coltrane
Opinion / 25 June 2024
Chaotic ecstatic favourite things
25 June 2024
DAVID YEARSLEY celebrates the long-awaited issue of a mythic live recording featuring John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy
Annie Chen
Interview / 12 June 2024
‘My band are global guardians, determined to protect the environment’
12 June 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Chinese vocalist Annie Chen on the release of her new album Guardians
Jim Mullen
Music Review / 6 May 2024
‘The day jazz washed away the dust of everyday life*’
6 May 2024
CHRIS SEARLE pops into his local for some serendipitous jazz goings-on
Ricky Ford with his Quartet at the 19-88 jazz club in Rennes
Interview / 23 April 2024
‘They couldn't believe what they heard. Where'd this guy come from?’
23 April 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with veteran tenor saxophonist RICKY FORD
Drummer Alan Jackson playing at The Stables, Wavendon, Bucki
Interview / 15 April 2024
‘We could all play totally free’
15 April 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to drummer Alan Jackson, ex-bandmate of Bruce Turner in the band Fingers
AMAZING: Mary Halvorson, avant-garde composer and guitarist
Books / 4 April 2024
Grace notes
4 April 2024
WILL STONE welcomes an outstanding collection of jazz writing from the Morning Star’s own correspondent 
Bobby Wellins and Spike Wells
Interview / 3 April 2024
‘He was the other half of my heartbeat’
3 April 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to drummer Spike Wells about his experience playing with the great Scottish saxophonist Bobby Wellins
Music / 22 March 2024
Jazz albums with Chris Searle: March 22, 2024
22 March 2024
Reviews of Max Eastley/Terry Day/John Butcher, Trevor Tomkins' Sextant, and Caroline Kraabel and Pat Thomas
Album reviews / 12 February 2024
Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR: February 12, 2024
12 February 2024
A slick blend of jazz and hip-hop, reinvigorated Radiohead and unhurried icy duets: reviews of Foreverland, Wall Of Eyes and Touch Of Time
Benny Goodman (third from left) with seated around piano lef
Books / 3 February 2024
The soundtrack of freedom and justice
3 February 2024
CHRIS SEARLE treasures a profoundly original exploration of jazz, the blues and Jewish liturgical cantorial chanting
Sammy Rimington, center, at jazz funeral for Danny Barker, N
Interview / 23 January 2024
‘I couldn't play publicly with black musicians, only in their homes’
23 January 2024
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with clarinetist Sammy Rimington
Music / 21 January 2024
Dalston nights to remember
21 January 2024
CHRIS SEARLE reviews Rachel Musson and Charlotte Keeffe at Cafe Oto
Sam Newbould, 2022
Interview / 17 January 2024
‘A kind of species name for the odd feelings of being detached from the place you grew up in and love’
17 January 2024
CHRIS SEARLE interviews saxophonist Sam Newbould about his album Bogus Notus
Aruan Ortiz
Interview / 29 December 2023
‘I see music as a channel against all forms of injustice, racism and political brutality’
29 December 2023
CHRIS SEARLE interviews Cuban pianist Aruan Ortiz on the release of his album Pastor’s Paradox 
Culture / 27 December 2023
Best of 2023: Jazz albums
27 December 2023
CHRIS SEARLE picks his favourites
Phil Hargreaves
Interview / 22 November 2023
A proud and modest jazz revolutionary
22 November 2023
Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist PHIL HARGREAVES about his new album PI, and his long-standing support for the WMA
London Jazz Festival / 20 November 2023
Shimmering ascents/plummeting cadences
20 November 2023
CHRIS SEARLE swoons to one of the greats
Interview / 8 November 2023
‘The feeling of a stroll, with stops, looking, and starting again’
8 November 2023
CHRIS SEARLE interviews saxophonist Chris Biscoe on the release of his new tribute to Mike Westbrook
Interview / 25 October 2023
‘The coup and Pinochet's dictatorship left a giant wound in the Chilean psyche that still has not healed’
25 October 2023
CHRIS SEARLE interviews the pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn, on the release of her album to Chile 
WORLD TOUR: Isata Kanneh-Maso
Music Review / 4 October 2023
Nottingham virtuoso
4 October 2023
PETER MASON is impressed by a mesmerising piano recital of subtle, assured fingerwork
Interview / 19 July 2023
Trying to connect the dots between English, Irish and Bengali heritage
19 July 2023
Chris Searle interviews pianist ZOE RAHMAN on the release of her album Colour of Sound
VIRTUOSO: Yussef Dayes performs at Love Supreme Jazz festiva
Festival Review / 5 July 2023
Love is Glynde
5 July 2023
JOE GILL wallows in superb evenings of jazz, funk and rap, and only regrets that savouring the music displaced his opportunity to heckle
Jacquard lace-making machines, 1968; Julian Siegel, 2018
Interview / 30 May 2023
Listening to the machines made him want to conduct them!
30 May 2023
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to saxophonist, composer and orchestrator JULIAN SIEGEL 
Interview / 21 May 2023
‘Steel pan had a stigma and was considered an instrument from the ghetto’
21 May 2023
Chris Searle interviews master of the jazz steel pan LEON FOSTER-THOMAS on the release of his album Calasanitus (Krossover Jazz Records)
Culture / 16 May 2023
‘I was setting up pots and pans to hit at five years old’
16 May 2023
CHRIS SEARLE interviews drummer JOE CHAMBERS on the release of his new album DANCE KOBINA 
A page from The Way Things Work, by Neil Ardley and David Ma
Book Review / 8 April 2023
An exemplary human
8 April 2023
CHRIS SEARLE marvels at the musical and scientific passions of one of Britain’s great polymaths
Culture / 20 February 2023
Jazz albums review with Chris Searle: February 20, 2023
20 February 2023
New releases from Ahmad Jamal, Helena Kay’s Kim Trio + Peter Johnstone, Gordon Grdina, Mark Helias and Matthew Shipp
Dave Green
Music / 12 February 2023
‘A life in jazz is a never ending journey, you never stop learning’
12 February 2023
Chris Searle speaks with veteran British bassist DAVE GREEN
(L to R) Myra Melford, Joelle Leandre and Nicole Mitchell
Culture / 11 January 2023
‘Jazz was my music, yet I didn't know how to navigate it’
11 January 2023
Chris Searle speaks with flutist NICOLE MITCHELL
Cory Smythe and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra
Culture / 4 January 2023
‘Jazz was from its beginnings, a radical act of political resistance’
4 January 2023
Chris Searle speaks with pianist CORY SMYTHE
Henry Llowther
Jazz Interview / 4 December 2022
‘I became interested in jazz after listening to Indian classical music’
4 December 2022
Chris Searle speaks with trumpeter HENRY LOWTHER
Brian Landrus in 2017
Culture / 30 November 2022
Round-ups 2022: Jazz albums with Chris Searle
30 November 2022
Jazz / 27 November 2022
Album reviews with Chris Searle: November 28, 2022
27 November 2022
New releases from Ches Smith, Brandon Lopez/Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey and John Taylor Sextet
Pablo Milanes in Havana in 2019
Obituary / 27 November 2022
Cuba bids farewell to one of its favourite sons, Pablo Milanes
27 November 2022
(February 24 1943 – November 22 2022)
Dianne Reeves
Music Review / 15 November 2022
A consummate artist
15 November 2022
ROGER McKENZIE was enthralled for two hours by superb jazz from Dianne Reeves
Luis Perdomo
Jazz Interview / 15 November 2022
‘I am a jazz musician who happened to be born in Venezuela’
15 November 2022
Chris Searle speaks with Venezuelan pianist LUIS PERDOMO
Tony Haynes
Jazz Interview / 5 October 2022
‘We gathered a powerful company of musicians whose worlds we all wove together’
5 October 2022
Chris Searle speaks with the Grand Union Orchestra founder TONY HAYNES
Jazz Review / 5 October 2022
Making the previously unknown, known
5 October 2022
Alexander Hawkins Trio at the Jazz South Radar Sessions 2021
Music Review / 16 September 2022
Musical union of three jazz troubadours
16 September 2022
An improvised moment full of invented melody and collective now-times sound drawn from a century of jazz tradition, writes CHRIS SEARLE
Members of the legendary Blue Notes sextet, trumpeter and fl
Searle interview / 14 September 2022
‘They were the heart of an entire nation of musicians’
14 September 2022
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with Hazel Miller, founder of Ogun Records
Abraham Burton
Jazz Interview / 30 August 2022
‘The privilege to partake in the simple act of being together’
30 August 2022
Chris Searle speaks with saxophonist ABRAHAM BURTON
Harrison Smith
Jazz / 10 August 2022
‘A sense of balance between individuals and the group, a sense of unity’
10 August 2022
Chris Searle speaks with saxophonist HARRISON SMITH
Tomas Fujiwara
Interview / 26 July 2022
‘I’d like each listener to interpret the sounds in their own personal way’
26 July 2022
Chris Searle speaks with drummer TOMAS FUJIWARA
Arun Ghosh
Jazz / 20 June 2022
‘To me, music has always been about melody’
20 June 2022
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to clarinettist Arun Ghosh, on the release of his album Seclused In Light
(L to R) Joe Mcphee, Kahil El'zabar
Live Music Review / 18 May 2022
Joe McPhee at Cafe Oto and Kahil El'zabar at Ronnie Scotts
18 May 2022
Music / 16 May 2022
Album reviews with Chris Sealre: May 17, 2022
16 May 2022
Music / 20 February 2022
Album reviews with Chris Searle: February 21, 2022
20 February 2022
New releases from Borderlands Trio, Phil Hargreaves/Richard Harrison and Chris Laurence
Trevor Watts at Vortex
Jazz / 7 February 2022
‘What's been has been, but what's ahead is unknown and in many ways more exciting’
7 February 2022
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with York native and revolutionary improviser alto saxophonist Trevor Watts
Javon Jackson
Jazz / 17 January 2022
‘During the Trump years we needed spirituals to comfort us again’
17 January 2022
Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist JAVON JACKSON on the release of his new album: The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni
SUPPORT FOR PALESTINE: Lena Bloch
Jazz / 7 January 2022
‘The music of human flesh’
7 January 2022
CHRIS SEARLE talks with the Moscow-born Israeli saxophonist Lena Bloch about the release of and inspirations behind her album Rose of Lifta
Albert Nicholas
Culture / 29 November 2021
‘You can hear what a beautiful player he was’
29 November 2021
Chris Searle speaks to VAL WILMER about veteran virtuoso New Orleans clarinettist Albert Nicholas
Stelios Chatzikaleas
Interview / 31 October 2021
Uplifting notes for Palestine
31 October 2021
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Thessaloniki-born Stelios Chatzikaleas about his new album Dignity and his support for the cause of Palestine
Lol Coxhill in 2007
Jazz / 10 October 2021
‘His most compelling legacy is the status he gave British musicians on the world stage’
10 October 2021
Record producer GEORGE HASLAM talks to Chris Searle about the release of the album Coxhill ’85 by legendary soprano saxophonist Lol Coxhill
Art Baron
Interview / 3 September 2021
The lasting spell of a musical colossus
3 September 2021
Veteran jazz trombonist ART BARON opens up to Chris Searle about the good old days of playing with Duke Ellington
POWER TRIO: Geri Allen, Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Ca
OPINION / 21 June 2021
Discordant notes on jazz
21 June 2021
PAUL WIDDOP and SIOBHAN McANDREW report on the gender imbalance in the music and how it’s holding women back
INTERVIEW / 14 June 2021
‘Minimalism is a big part of the Scandinavian sound’
14 June 2021
Jazz saxophonist CECILIE STRANGE talks to Chris Searle about the guiding principles behind her music
MUSIC / 23 February 2021
Spontaneous combustion
23 February 2021
Memoirs of a great jazz drummer fizz with the sense of improvisatory freedom inherent in his music, says CHRIS SEARLE
Culture / 23 November 2020
Jazz albums with Chris Searle: November 23, 2020
23 November 2020
Mary Halvorson
Jazz Interview / 11 November 2020
‘I am so thrilled that the four year nightmare of Trump's presidency will soon be behind us’
11 November 2020
MARY HALVORSON talks to Chris Searle about what inspires her music and has a tender word for Robert Wyatt
Craig Taborn
Jazz Interview / 4 November 2020
‘For many of us black musicians police violence has always been a fact of our existence’
4 November 2020
A native of Minneapolis, legendary pianist Craig Taborn talks to Chris Searle about his reactions to the George Floyd murder and to the impact of the pandemic on US jazz musicians
Interview / 28 October 2020
‘Jazz has always been a music of resistance in the way it reacts to the turbulence of its times’
28 October 2020
CHRIS SEARLE in conversation with jazz guitar maestro Rob Luft
TELEPATHIC: Binker Golding
Live Jazz / 6 January 2020
A deeply throbbing melodism
6 January 2020
CHRIS SEARLE reviews Eddie Gomez, Binker Golding, Elliot Galvin, Gunter Baby Sommer and Raymond MacDonald
Profoundly contemporary: Terri Lyne Carrington
Interview / 4 November 2019
‘We do what we can and hope it has a ripple effect’
4 November 2019
Jazz musician TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON explains to Chris Searle why themes of social justice in the Trump era inform her latest album
Egalitarian: Alexander Hawkins
Interview / 10 October 2019
‘A magical balance of monumentality and the ephemeral’
10 October 2019
Jazz pianist ALEXANDER HAWKINS explains to Chris Searle what he's attempting to achieve on his new album Iron into Wind
Interview / 23 August 2019
‘Dark matter is what keeps everything from drifting apart’
23 August 2019
Pianist LAFAYETTE GILCHRIST talks to Chris Searle about the unifying force inspiring his latest album
Interview / 8 August 2019
‘What’s happening in daily life drives my music, my emotions and passions’
8 August 2019
WAYNE ESCOFFERY tells Chris Searle what it’s like to be back from US in his native Walthamstow and the challenges on both sides of the pond
Interview / 8 August 2019
‘I think we could do with more truth’
8 August 2019
ANDREW McCORMACK tells Chris Searle he believes music is powerful and his place in the world is to use it for good
Live Music Review / 6 August 2019
This was Sixties organ trio swing and could they swing
6 August 2019
Jazz Review / 25 July 2019
Coltrane saluted by Skidmore four
25 July 2019
Interview / 21 July 2019
Rooted in Rivera
21 July 2019
MIGUEL ZENON tells Chris Searle why his latest album pays tribute to one of the great Puerto Rican singers
Interview / 10 June 2019
‘For us, it’s an endless journey’
10 June 2019
Jazz virtuoso PAT THOMAS talks to Chris Searle about his never-ending pursuit of sonic invention with Black Top
Culture / 3 March 2019
Jazz Album Review: Lowell Davidson Trio
3 March 2019
Pianist Lowell Davidson's only recording reveals all the brilliance of his innovatory talent
Jazz Albums with Chris Searle / 12 December 2018
Compelling ruminations on casualties of drug addiction from Bley, Swallow and Sheppard
12 December 2018
Percussive pioneer: Lorraine Baker
Culture / 3 December 2018
Best of 2108: Jazz Albums
3 December 2018
by CHRIS SEARLE
Jazz Albums with Chris Searle / 12 October 2018
Four minds meet as one in joyful synthesis of Arab music and jazz
12 October 2018
Jazz Review / 9 April 2018
A marvel of musical transmigration
9 April 2018
A self-portrait of Isaac Rosenberg
Interview / 4 April 2018
Isaac Rosenberg: The war-time poet time forgot
4 April 2018
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to the Star about an East End poet who met an untimely end in the trenches of World War I and how his work has his inspired not only his new book but his entire life
Jazz pianist Stanely Cowell
Album Review / 20 March 2018
Melodies and memories rendered into a most beautiful form
20 March 2018
CHRIS SEARLE on Jazz
Jazz drum legend Barry Altschul
Music Review / 12 March 2018
Some troubadours burn brightest together
12 March 2018
CHRIS SEARLE reviews Barry Altschul & The 3Dom Factor’s Live in Krakow
Review / 5 March 2018
An exceptionally brilliant eclecticism
5 March 2018
Chris Searle on Jazz
Music Review / 19 February 2018
A fiery musical talent from the Windy City
19 February 2018
Chris Searle on Jazz
Review / 13 February 2018
An amalgam of creative iconoclasm
13 February 2018
CHRIS SEARLE on jazz
John Tchicai performs at the Munster Jazz Festival in 1987
Chris Searle on jazz / 5 February 2018
A jazzman of precious unity's beautiful saxophone songs
5 February 2018
South African musician Hugh Masekela performed at Westminste
Death / 23 January 2018
South Africa liberation movement pays tribute to Hugh Masekela
23 January 2018
Louis Hayes
Music Review / 22 January 2018
A chorus of Silverian life
22 January 2018
Chris Searle on Jazz
Music Review / 16 January 2018
Echoes of Robeson with creative fire
16 January 2018
Chris Searle on Jazz
Chris Searle on Jazz / 9 January 2018
Powerful, allusive sounds of Philadelphia
9 January 2018
Chris Searle on Jazz / 18 December 2017
All sounds cohere in this genre-defying beauty
18 December 2017
Review / 4 December 2017
Steel drums make for a glorious sound
4 December 2017
CHRIS SEARLE reviews Glass World by Rudy Smith Quartet (Stunt STU CD 17082)
CHRIS SEARLE ON JAZZ / 27 November 2017
A palaver of great musical intensity
27 November 2017
CHRIS SEARLE reviews Loaded Basses by Joe Fonda’s Bottoms Out (CIMP 343)
Features / 16 October 2017
Nations absorbed in the oneness of sound
16 October 2017
Chris Searle reviews Ha Noi Duo by Nguyen Le and Ngo Hong Quang (Act 9828-2)
Features / 2 October 2017
Ebullient songs of boppish swing
2 October 2017
Chris Searle on Jazz: Eddie Jefferson
Review / 4 September 2017
Brothers through time and sound
4 September 2017
Review / 28 August 2017
‘He rose through notes as if through worlds’
28 August 2017
Features / 22 August 2017
Chris Searle: The continents mesh with fire and sound
22 August 2017
Features / 15 August 2017
A trio performance of sheer invention
15 August 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 8 August 2017
Chris Searle on Jazz: Alexander Hawkins
8 August 2017
The very heart’s blood of musical creativity
Features / 1 August 2017
A powerful creative force
1 August 2017
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 25 July 2017
Evocative and memorable but not their finest hour
25 July 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 3 July 2017
The master-seeker returns to the fore
3 July 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 26 June 2017
Glorious records full of defiance and optimism
26 June 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 12 June 2017
An album of pure jazz luminescence
12 June 2017
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 29 May 2017
A cacophony in unity
29 May 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 22 May 2017
Layers of sound create a very special message
22 May 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Culture / 17 May 2017
Black jazz collective tune in to potent radical message
17 May 2017
Features / 15 May 2017
A true sister of jazz innovation
15 May 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 8 May 2017
‘I loves to play for dancing’
8 May 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Culture / 5 May 2017
Jazz notes with Ammar Kalia
5 May 2017
Culture / 1 May 2017
Life goes on, music goes on, jazz goes on
1 May 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 25 April 2017
Sounds that are surprising – yet open to interpretation
25 April 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 10 April 2017
A potent album dedicated to life, love and friendship
10 April 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Culture / 5 April 2017
Carter makes his point with a virtuoso display
5 April 2017
Chris Searle reviews Zero Point with Daniel Carter
Features / 3 April 2017
Chris Searle on Jazz: Sonny Grey
3 April 2017
Spirited sounds from a fine Jamaica hornman
Features / 27 March 2017
Pulsating cadences at the apex of jazz
27 March 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 20 March 2017
African brilliance in the heart of England
20 March 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 16 March 2017
Warnings and praise for life and its survival
16 March 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 13 March 2017
In tribute to the Lakota Sioux
13 March 2017
Culture / 1 March 2017
George’s journey is well worth joining
1 March 2017
Features / 27 February 2017
An album of unified musical dexterity
27 February 2017
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 20 February 2017
A maternity ward for sizzling sounds
20 February 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 13 February 2017
A unifying message of rare beauty
13 February 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 6 February 2017
Attuned invention and jazz beauty
6 February 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 30 January 2017
Soaring sonic serenity
30 January 2017
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 23 January 2017
A fascination with jazz sonority
23 January 2017
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 16 January 2017
The devil always did have the best tracks
16 January 2017
Culture / 10 January 2017
Free spirits invoke the plight of the dispossessed
10 January 2017
Features / 9 January 2017
A jazz album full of truths and beauty
9 January 2017
Culture / 4 January 2017
Horns at vortex of great jazz storm
4 January 2017
Features / 3 January 2017
The brilliance behind a relentless upsurge
3 January 2017
Culture / 23 December 2016
ROUND-UP 2016
23 December 2016
Star columnists run through what’s impressed them this year
Features / 19 December 2016
An epochal album pushing jazz forward
19 December 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 13 December 2016
A dynamism for us to organise and groove to
13 December 2016
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 6 December 2016
John Escreet: Powerfully prominent and assertively ambitious
6 December 2016
CHRIS SEARLE on Jazz
Features / 28 November 2016
Tradition, change and struggle in new notes
28 November 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Culture / 23 November 2016
Music bridges troubled waters
23 November 2016
CHRIS SEARLE reports on a festival where musicians from around the world defied dark times with a sense of musical unity
Features / 21 November 2016
Frolicsome energy from eternal tappings
21 November 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 14 November 2016
Life and beauty exudes from Noble’s every note
14 November 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 7 November 2016
A celebration of a true hero of music
7 November 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 31 October 2016
An assault on the eyes of false consciousness
31 October 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 24 October 2016
A truly evocative salutation
24 October 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 17 October 2016
Lamentations passed down to brilliant sons
17 October 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 10 October 2016
Sheer melodious and innovative serenity
10 October 2016
Chris Searle on JAZZ
Features / 3 October 2016
A sense of place through melody and love
3 October 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 15 August 2016
Transmuting Dreams
15 August 2016
Ingrid Laubrock Sleepthief (Intakt CD146) Anti-House (Intakt CD 173) Ingrid Laubrock Octet Zurich Concert (Intakt CD 221)
Features / 8 August 2016
Jazzin’ up the revolutionary prison poetry of Ho Chi Minh
8 August 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 1 August 2016
An astonishing creative power
1 August 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 25 July 2016
At 80, Westbrook in tune with the modern world
25 July 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Culture / 25 July 2016
The Trek that’s losing track
25 July 2016
The series which made me what I am needs to boldly go where it hasn’t been before, writes James Walsh
Culture / 25 July 2016
Veterans still in vanguard of free jazz virtuousity
25 July 2016
Culture / 19 July 2016
US trio whip up a sonic storm in the Vortex
19 July 2016
Features / 18 July 2016
Tribute to an incandescent hornman
18 July 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 11 July 2016
Searing sound in touch with the world
11 July 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Culture / 6 July 2016
Trio take a journey without maps to turbulent jazz territory
6 July 2016
Features / 27 June 2016
Sounds of Iraq and beyond
27 June 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 20 June 2016
Parisian lustre
20 June 2016
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 13 June 2016
Drenched in creative beauty and meaning
13 June 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 6 June 2016
A musical exposition of the evolutionary process
6 June 2016
Chris Searle on JAZZ
Culture / 25 May 2016
Westbrook’s show of ensemble strength
25 May 2016
Features / 23 May 2016
A match made in jazz heaven
23 May 2016
An intimate jazz colloquy between two powerful jazz elders crossing the Atlantic with a musical palaver of huge joy and artistry
Culture / 20 May 2016
Arts ahead
20 May 2016
Star critics cherry-pick some of the best on offer in the weeks to come
Culture / 18 May 2016
Flautist takes flight, from California to Hackney
18 May 2016
Features / 17 May 2016
A fine musical amalgam
17 May 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 10 May 2016
‘An eternally unquiet world’
10 May 2016
Chris Searle on Jazz: Sound Dance by Muhal Richard Abrams
Culture / 5 May 2016
Pure and beautiful narrative melodies
5 May 2016
Chris Searle reviews Marc Ribot
Features / 3 May 2016
Britain’s pride enjoys the limelight
3 May 2016
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 25 April 2016
Powerfully cosmopolitan sounds of the Middle East
25 April 2016
Chris Searle on JAZZ
Features / 18 April 2016
A sense of sonic miracle
18 April 2016
Chris Searle reviews Sounds and Cries of the World by Jen Shyu and Jade Tongue
Features / 11 April 2016
‘Unheard sounds that fill the ears’
11 April 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 5 April 2016
Notes big and small, and imagination huge
5 April 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 28 March 2016
Bringing back a world that’s all but gone
28 March 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 21 March 2016
Testimony to treachery
21 March 2016
Chris Searle on JAZZ
Features / 14 March 2016
Parables of life and hope
14 March 2016
Chris Searle on JAZZ
Features / 7 March 2016
Sophisticated Abbey: A live set from one of the world’s greatest jazz artists
7 March 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Culture / 2 March 2016
Trio triumph at Cafe Oto
2 March 2016
Culture / 29 February 2016
An array of unified Caribbean talent
29 February 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 22 February 2016
‘We know how to make each other shine’
22 February 2016
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 15 February 2016
‘The sound of surprise, even more unexpected’
15 February 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 8 February 2016
Giving voice to the oppressed
8 February 2016
Culture / 4 February 2016
Book review: ‘Tubby’ genius who was the spirit of his jazz age
4 February 2016
Features / 1 February 2016
A new sound in the jazz galaxy
1 February 2016
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 25 January 2016
Relentlessly innovative yet full of swing and fire
25 January 2016
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 18 January 2016
Pulsating strings that tell their formidable stories
18 January 2016
CHRIS SEARLE celebrates the sepia-tinted stylings of a German pianist’s trio-turned-quartet in four highly accomplished albums
Features / 12 January 2016
Titanic notes from a mighty quartet pay fitting tribute
12 January 2016
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 5 January 2016
‘A pounding, powerfully blown album with rich allusions to history and literature’
5 January 2016
Chris Searle on JAZZ
Features / 29 December 2015
Capacity for artistry and sheer beauty
29 December 2015
An album uniting the jazz talents of confreres John Coltrane and Ray Draper gives CHRIS SEARLE much to be thankful for
Features / 21 December 2015
A trumpet weeping with oppression
21 December 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 14 December 2015
Suffering for art: Legends on the breadline
14 December 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 7 December 2015
A galaxy of troubadours
7 December 2015
A live jazz album brings back memories of the Duke’s phenomenal big band performance in 1960s Leeds for a nostalgic CHRIS SEARLE
Features / 30 November 2015
A unification of sonic traditions
30 November 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Culture / 26 November 2015
London Jazz Festival round-up
26 November 2015
by Chris Searle
Features / 23 November 2015
Schneider’s big band sound evokes country childhood
23 November 2015
The award-winning female jazz composer paints a picture of the Minnesota prairies with this cool breeze of an album, writes CHRIS SEARLE
Features / 16 November 2015
Review: Covered by Robert Glasper
16 November 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz: In memory of those misrepresented and abused by the laws of their land
Features / 2 November 2015
Canto General featuring Louis Moholo-Moholo – Rebel Flames
2 November 2015
Chris Searle reviews an album of pulsating beauty
Features / 26 October 2015
Miller made melodic – Towns translates drama into orchestra
26 October 2015
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 19 October 2015
Rhythmic Reverie
19 October 2015
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 13 October 2015
Beyonce’s saxophonist dazzles with her own jazz band
13 October 2015
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 5 October 2015
Forged in the sonic smithy
5 October 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 21 September 2015
New Orleans jazz – but starting in Dagenham
21 September 2015
The past is another country, yet a Friday night favourite has playing power 50 years on, finds CHRIS SEARLE
Features / 16 September 2015
The Canadian melodist of east London
16 September 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Culture / 14 September 2015
Astonishing resurrection of jazz great
14 September 2015
Chris Searle admires Barbara Frenz’s Music to Silence to Music: A Biography of Henry Grimes (Northway Publications, £20)
Features / 7 September 2015
Rudresh Mahanthappa : Echoes of a bird song
7 September 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 31 August 2015
Starkly adventurous sounds of the city
31 August 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 24 August 2015
Empathy that cuts across US’s cultural isolation
24 August 2015
As relations with Cuba begin to thaw, CHRIS SEARLE explores the jazzy partnership between a Virginian bassist and a Havana-born pianist
Culture / 21 August 2015
Arts
21 August 2015
Star critics cherry-pick some of the best on offer in the weeks to come
Features / 17 August 2015
Radiant record’s sunlit orbit
17 August 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 10 August 2015
Sprightly Tchicai rooted in the jazz sounds of civil rights
10 August 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 3 August 2015
Dynamic trio plus guests make a thriving quartet
3 August 2015
Two recent collaborative albums showcase the finest avant-garde talent of a decade, explains CHRIS SEARLE
Features / 27 July 2015
‘Where the earthly meets the spiritual’
27 July 2015
Saxophonist John Gunther’s three Axis Mundi albums echo with a heavenly connection spanning many cultures, thinks CHRIS SEARLE
Features / 20 July 2015
Art, protest and restless humanity, never quelled
20 July 2015
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt echoes a nation’s grief as US police continue to target, hurt and kill innocent black men, writes CHRIS SEARLE
Features / 13 July 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz: Incendiary musical commitment
13 July 2015
Remembering the night in Manchester when Art Blakey with the Jazz Messengers showed how music can be an eloquent instrument of political struggles
Features / 6 July 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz: Passionate percussion
6 July 2015
Marilyn Mazur’s drumming beats out her path to the constellation of jazz legends
Features / 30 June 2015
Jazz pianist is Tippett-top and in Bristol fashion
30 June 2015
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 22 June 2015
Jubilant reedsong from a master
22 June 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 15 June 2015
A Red unity of sound to get the Korner buzzing
15 June 2015
Garland’s rare foray to San Francisco is beautifully captured on vinyl and CD
Features / 8 June 2015
Improvising genius: Shaken by the sounds of a visionary home-grown trumpeter
8 June 2015
Londoner Ramanan is cut from the same cloth as his legendary brass-playing father Shake Keane, writes CHRIS SEARLE
Features / 1 June 2015
Wild sublimated emotion
1 June 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 25 May 2015
Buildings of sonic beauty
25 May 2015
Chris Searle on jazz
Features / 18 May 2015
Luminous sounds from 7 prolific warriors of jazz
18 May 2015
A line-up of legends have distilled their best work from the last 50 years into one record. CHRIS SEARLE is sold from the first note.
Features / 11 May 2015
Freedom sound of the ’60s
11 May 2015
CHRIS SEARLE explores how a group of schoolfriends banded together to create powerful jazz grooves in Los Angeles
Features / 4 May 2015
‘I got my college degree from Art Blakey’s university of jazz and life’
4 May 2015
Woody Plays Woody by Woody Shaw (High Note) 5/5
Features / 28 April 2015
A vivacious pre-’60s world
28 April 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 20 April 2015
Wadada you know: Avant-garde genius still blows listeners away
20 April 2015
CHRIS SEARLE explores the tender beauty of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith’s music in four distinct albums from across a decade
Features / 13 April 2015
Chris Searle on jazz: ‘The heart is the seat of my musical thoughts and the brain is their rhythmic laboratory’
13 April 2015
Portrait Of The Legendary Baritone Saxophonist Lars Gullin: Complete 1956-69 Studio Performances (four-CD box set) (Fresh Sound Records) 5/5
Features / 6 April 2015
Soloist trumpets his musical wares
6 April 2015
Joe McPhee As Serious as Your Life (Hatology 514) Review by Chris Searle
Features / 30 March 2015
Music that healed political discord, Chris Searle on JAZZ
30 March 2015
Argentine Adventures: Part 1-3 The Anglo-Argentine Jazz Quartet, Live at the Red Rose, by George Haslam and Friends (Slam) 4/5
Culture / 26 March 2015
Mature mastery in east London
26 March 2015
CHRIS SEARLE hears two veteran jazz groups roll back the years The Mike Westbrook Trio Vout-O-Renee’s London E1 5/5 Strata East Live Barbican Centre London EC2 5/5
Features / 23 March 2015
Album review: An unlikely pairing
23 March 2015
Romanian folk and Motor City blues combine for some stonking jazz. Review by CHRIS SEARLE Lucian Ban and Alex Harding Somethin’ Holy (CIMP 274), Premonition (CIMP 274) and Tuba Project (CIMP 337)
Features / 17 March 2015
Keyboard King Cole
17 March 2015
We know the mellifluous singer but when he returned to a jazz setting, Nat Cole was a great pianist too, writes Chris Searle
World / 12 March 2015
Jazz man Marsalis not swinging by Caracas
12 March 2015
Features / 2 March 2015
Monk: a spirited goodbye
2 March 2015
In December 1969 at the end of a tour Theolonious Monk plays in Paris – a place of his earlier exile – for the last time and summons all his creativity to make the evening an unforgettable experience for those present, writes Chris Searle
Culture / 23 February 2015
Jazz as medicine for the soul
23 February 2015
Prolific pianist Marilyn Crispell’s softly chiming notes bring a ‘beautiful quietude’ to her records, writes CHRIS SEARLE
Culture / 16 February 2015
Memories of a key change
16 February 2015
Low-profile, high-octane pianist ‘Fat Man’ Williams played his way through the most powerful years of the US civil rights movement, writes CHRIS SEARLE
Features / 10 February 2015
Youthful trumpeter Laura Jurd marries jazz with poetry
10 February 2015
A powerful up-and-coming musician is winning awards for records crafted with life, light and exuberance, says Chris Searle
Features / 2 February 2015
Freestone tenor flies light as a feather
2 February 2015
A young saxophonist with boatsman heritage is making waves in the jazz world with a powerful debut album
Culture / 26 January 2015
Counting the Basie blessings
26 January 2015
Reissued classic recordings retain the magical thrill of old, says CHRIS SEARLE
Features / 19 January 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz: Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
19 January 2015
Raw rhapsodic power
Features / 12 January 2015
A unique piano voice
12 January 2015
Chris Searle reviews Bokani Dyer’s Emancipate the Story (Dyertribe Records)
Culture / 5 January 2015
Trish Clowes: Singularly magical
5 January 2015
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 29 December 2014
A salute to the comrades of music and struggle
29 December 2014
Chris Searle reviews 4 Blokes by the Louis Moholo-Moholo Quartet (Ogun)
Features / 22 December 2014
Aki channels Ellington
22 December 2014
Chris Searle reviews My Ellington by Aki Takase (Intakt Records 213)
Features / 15 December 2014
Free drummer on a roll
15 December 2014
Chris Searle reviews Boom Boom Cat by Sunny Murray, John Edwards and Tony Bevan (Foghorn)
Features / 8 December 2014
Home’s heart is where the bass is king
8 December 2014
Chris Searle reviews Sam Jones’s Cello and Bass (Fresh Sound)
Features / 1 December 2014
Meditation on a fateful slaughter at Culloden
1 December 2014
The sound of history comes to life through Bobby Wellins's saxophone, says Chris Searle
Culture / 26 November 2014
Globally great
26 November 2014
CHRIS SEARLE enjoys this year’s London Jazz Festival, a brilliant amalgam of youth and experience from Britain and all over the world
Features / 24 November 2014
Unifying life force at the heart of jazz
24 November 2014
Chris Searle reviews three albums including Odean Pope
Culture / 17 November 2014
The Cuban Coltrane and Comanche exile songs
17 November 2014
Chris Searle on Jazz
Culture / 10 November 2014
Chris Searle on Jazz
10 November 2014
Frank Wright Quartet: Haunting and soulful blues improviser
Culture / 3 November 2014
Exploring the limits of living jazz: John Butcher
3 November 2014
Chris Searle on News from the Shed, The Scenic Route and Fixations (14)
Culture / 3 November 2014
Jack Bruce, musician and composer, May 14 1943-October 25 2014
3 November 2014
Features / 27 October 2014
Chris Searle on Jazz: Fred Ho and the Saxophone Liberation Front’s Snake-eaters
27 October 2014
A dream and plan in harmony
Culture / 20 October 2014
Diyani's joyful rebel bass booms from the vault
20 October 2014
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 13 October 2014
Baker shows us why he’s unforgotten
13 October 2014
Baker shows us why he’s unforgotten
Features / 6 October 2014
The Remarkable Carmell Jones & Business Meetin’
6 October 2014
Chris Searle has a listen to the trumpeter's first two albums
Culture / 30 September 2014
Cape Discovery
30 September 2014
Chris Searle on Jazz
Culture / 26 September 2014
Concert: Sarah Jane Morris at the Union Chapel in London
26 September 2014
Lyrics addressing human rights, homophobia, love, loss and rape, set in a Grade-1 listed building are a winner, writes INDIANNA PURCELL
Culture / 22 September 2014
Jazz: The Ballad of the Fallen by Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra
22 September 2014
CHRIS SEARLE reviews the music and life of a fallen jazz legend
Features / 15 September 2014
Jazz: Brand’s strong spirit
15 September 2014
Culture / 18 August 2014
A horn of plenty
18 August 2014
Chris Searle on JAZZ
Culture / 11 August 2014
Album review: The Great Summit by Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
11 August 2014
CHRIS SEARLE on Jazz
Culture / 4 August 2014
A delectable duo
4 August 2014
Chris Searle on Jazz
Culture / 28 July 2014
Ronnie’s spirit of co-operation
28 July 2014
Chris Searle on Jazz
Features / 7 July 2014
Music review: Stories, sounds and palavers
7 July 2014
Jazz buff CHRIS SEARLE goes to see the Byard Lancaster Quartet
Culture / 30 June 2014
Luminous piano from Panama
30 June 2014
Chris Searle on Jazz
Culture / 23 June 2014
Cross-continental harmony from a Yorkshire spirit
23 June 2014
CHRIS SEARLE on jazz
Culture / 2 June 2014
Tune in to wild man Logan
2 June 2014
CHRIS SEARLE on Jazz
Culture / 26 May 2014
Chris Searle on Jazz: A dash of Pepper
26 May 2014
CHRIS SEARLE recalls his first encounter with the rampant sounds of Pepper Adams
Culture / 19 May 2014
A sultan of violin swing
19 May 2014
Culture / 12 May 2014
Notes that court danger
12 May 2014
Chris Searle on Jazz
Britain / 21 April 2014
Beating down fascism
21 April 2014
Chris Searle on Jazz
Culture / 31 March 2014
Formidable free jazz
31 March 2014
CHRIS SEARLE Listens to three great British jazzmen
Culture / 24 March 2014
Book: Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
24 March 2014
A luminous tribute
Culture / 17 March 2014
The Stan Tracey Quintet
17 March 2014
Haunting echoes of the war to end all wars
Culture / 24 February 2014
Music: Sons Of Kemet
24 February 2014
CHRIS SEARLE revels in some marvellously combustive music
Culture / 17 February 2014
Music: One Four and Two Twos
17 February 2014
A fantastic foursome
Culture / 27 January 2014
Music: Harry Miller
27 January 2014
A flaring spirit of jazz
Culture / 13 January 2014
Determined and ancestral beats
13 January 2014
CHRIS SEARLE looks at Stanley Cowell and his latest album - It's Time
Culture / 30 December 2013
Another powerful gift of the Windrush years
30 December 2013
An impressive compilation of recordings charts the life's work of trumpeter Dizzy Reece
Culture / 18 December 2013
Music: Gerald Cleaver, William Parker and Craig Taborn
18 December 2013
Harvesting sounds of Earth's beauty
Culture / 9 December 2013
Music: Kenny Wheeler
9 December 2013
Knocking us for six with a fiery beauty