Cellist Shirley Smart has helped extend the number of unusual instruments that find a home in jazz, but she draws…

Jazz singing is the art that often beguiles with the idea that complexity is easy to deliver by substituting manner…

LOCKDOWN must immediately have felt to some like a state requiring communication by other means, though perhaps not to the…

New Journal of the Plague Year As lockdown was imposed, Welsh writer Nigel Jarrett began, at his home in Abergavenny,…

  Anglo-Italian saxophonist Tommaso Starace has long been standard-bearer for Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley, who himself has long been resident in…

One might be uncharitable and say that Mid Wales Opera’s production of Ravel’s musical comedy L’heure Espagnole has serious faults and…

The arrangements by which the EUCO puts itself about across Europe takes in both grand and modest venues, which accounts…

Concepts in the performance of music – Mozart by Candlelight, Vivaldi Out of Doors: that sort of thing – can…

A healthy musical culture is one that never leaves its historical achievements behind as though they counted for nothing. At…

There’s a sense in which the current Brecon Jazz Festival and Black Mountain Jazz’s Wall2Wall festival at Abergavenny are remnants…