27.08.2026
The Knee Jerk Jive
Beyond the general gratitude due him for elevating the cause and profile of jazz in this country, I can’t help thinking that I owe the late Ronnie Scott a more personal debt.
20.07.2026
Indigo Days
In the late summer of 1963, ‘Jazz News and Review’, by some measure the most insightful of the tiny handful of British jazz periodicals of the day, published an interview with Tubby Hayes conducted by a young female jazz writer Valerie Wilmer.
10.07.2026
The Ant and the Elephant
Speculating on what exactly makes a successful jazz biography is a game for fools. Readers of jazz histories, like listeners to jazz records, aren’t always after the same thing.