Guardian Music — Jazz saxophonist and co-founder of Ronnie Scott's who strove to keep the club afloatThe instinct of most jazz musicians to chase down the unexpected improvisational twist and avoid the formulaic has been good for the art, but often bad for business. ... more info

Guardian Music — My father, Ian Warren, who has died aged 96, enjoyed the fine things in life: fast cars, dashing clothes, good food, fine wine and entertaining friends. He also loved music and rugby. He was one of the earliest jazz fans in Britain, had his own band ... more info

Guardian Music — Trumpeter, broadcaster, and leader of Jamaica's Big BandSonny Bradshaw, who has died aged 83, was one of Jamaica's best-known musical figures. A polished trumpeter who played in the style of Dizzy Gillespie, he spent six decades as a bandleader and w... more info

All About Jazz — After more than a half-century as a jazz pianist, and having learned valuable lessons early on from studying with Oscar Peterson and playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Mike Longo delivers an incredible repertoire of in-depth musical exploration on his lat... more info

Guardian Music — One of the great jazz educators and innovators, this unheralded pianist was an inspiration to generations of musiciansMiles Davis is often associated with the late-1940s jazz that came to be known as The Birth of the Cool. But the blind Chicago piani... more info

All About Jazz — For years, Latin-jazz has been ignored or unduly dismissed as repetitive novelty music by jazz fans who should know better. While Latin-jazz is certainly foreign to those who have little knowledge of or connection with the Latin experience in America... more info

All About Jazz — Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. The jazz-Brazilian folk experiments first undertaken by alto saxophonist Bud Shank and guitarist Laurindo Almeida in the early and late 1950s became a winning formula for jazz in the spri... more info

All About Jazz — The innovative jazz education website PlayJazzNow.com has just released a new series of downloadable backing tracks. The latest sets of tracks delve into both classic and contemporary jazz materials. BEBOP STANDARDS is the new collection of tunes po... more info

Rock Sellout — Tru Thoughts Records out of the UK has been around for almost 10 years now and many people are probably reading that name for the first time. I'll be honest and admit that before I got back into writing for the site I didn't either. With that being ... more info

All About Jazz — Saxophonist Roger Lewis is one of the founding members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Since the 1970s, Lewis and the band have played with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Elvis Costello. In this interview, Lewis talks about the formation of the band... more info