Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert compared Steps Ahead stadium rockers and Steps Ahead reinvented fusioneers unplugged ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert heard Tyner and Brecker come through strongly in a session loaded with historical resonance and ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert saw the brothers' exceptional jazz soloing as an abiding factor through the vagaries of ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw, in a band playing fusion and a hipster audience expecting bebop, the tension between ...

Incredible technique and incredulous gasps were the order of the evening as shy Stanley Jordan held centre stage with his ...

Sixty years ago the famed cornet player struggled to appreciate Tony Williams and remembered when Bix Beiderbecke's pivot ...

Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd’s move from ECM to Blue Note in 2013 – this is his 12th album for the label – has been ...

Fifty years ago Steve Voce knew he wouldn't like Gibbs' latest until he'd become acclimatised to its innovations and accepted ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert marvelled at the virtuosity and expressivity of a group of Berklee students featuring Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith ...

Fifty years ago Roger Dean liked the rhythmic drive of Gateway but wasn't impressed by Abercombie's arbitrary climaxes and ...

Sixty years ago Graham Boatfield thought Ayler's 'harsh, feverish, tense and bitter' music might be the soundtrack to a ...