Fuelled by a loathing of Trump, the war in Gaza and anger at ‘the same old chauvinistic crap’, the 75-year-old – who cut her teeth with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins […]
Thrilling American jazz drummer, pianist and composer who played with some of the genre’s greatest stars In improvisational music, ungoverned by conductors or sacrosanct scores, and given to abrupt shifts […]
With a complex playing style that was nevertheless generous towards other musicians, the US musician was in a category all of his own • Jack DeJohnette dies aged 83 My […]
Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleader Jack DeJohnette, the jazz drummer celebrated as one of the genre’s true […]
Jazz singer with an unorthodox vocal style who first toured the UK and Europe in the 1960s As a girl growing up in Detroit, the jazz singer Sheila Jordan, who […]
Gerry Sayer was a warm, funny yet absent father, so consumed with music that he sacrificed family – but his ‘flair for improvisation’ inspired his writer daughter Get our weekend […]
Summerhall, EdinburghTrumpeter Jay Phelps plays a devotee of Benjamin Akintuyosi’s Miles Davis in this reverential tribute Celebrity biographical dramas are ten a penny but it takes audacity for a performer […]
The Puerto Rican New Yorker pianist, who has died aged 88, radiated pure joy as he played – never resting on his laurels as he went from jazz to salsa […]
The pianist, composer and bandleader was the first Latino to win a Grammy and would win seven more over a career that spanned nearly 40 albums Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde […]
Musician who helped to create ‘smooth jazz’, an easy-listening sound that won him two Grammy awards While the arrival of rock’n’roll in the 1950s helped deflate the popularity that jazz […]
