American author, artist and poet Tadd Richards has written over 30 books in the last 50 years. His most recent, Listening To Prestige, recounts the 22-year history of the Prestige record label.

Mountain Call This recording should not be confused with bassist Vitous’s debut album as leader, Mountain In The Clouds ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert read a book that was a corrective to the sage view of the 80s and 90s that jazz had lost its ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert welcomed TT's latest, not least for its reminders of the melodic clarity of the mid-80s Spears ...

Elegant Calamity Wellington, NZ-based multi-instrumentalist Oscar Lavën brought together an eclectic mix of local musicians for Elegant Calamity where he unveils his own mixed bag of influences to ...

Although essentially an autobiography, this is a series of interviews with French writer and longtime collaborator of Legrand, Stéphane Lerouge. It doesn’t follow a chronology, but each event triggers ...

Thirty years ago Derek Ansell welcomed a good straightahead piano trio but wondered why they used an old fag-stained pub joanna to record their new album ...

The genesis of this book provides a striking beginning to author Steven Bowie’s introduction. Way back in 2010 he dreamed he was standing by a bookstand and beside him was Cootie Williams, leafing ...

Sorts Of 3 Pianist Steve Lodder has been a respected figure in jazz for some time, closely linked to Andy Sheppard in earlier ...

The Flame Beneath The Silence Trumpeter Adewumi comes with endorsements from the likes of pianist Jason Moran, a musician whose first album had the late Sam Rivers in the line-up. This Adewumi album ...

Forty years ago, Victor Schonfield found here nothing to equal Marsh's I Remember You - 'one of the great jazz solos' - but still plenty of feeling, invention and rhythmic life ...