CLICK HERE TO READ ONLINE Continuing our series of profiles of great jazzmen from a golden age of jazz, one…
Autumn 2020 CLICK HERE TO READ ONLINE Featuring Annie Ross, Britain’s international jazz singing star, who died in July –…
Spring 2020 CLICK HERE TO READ ONLINE The special lockdown edition, featuring: Al Gay remembered by Simon Spillett Interview with…
Jazz Rag 160 Winter 2020 Click here to read online Packed with the usual flush of news, reviews and features,…
THE JAZZ RAG 159 Winter 2019 Click here to read online Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and…
The Jazz Rag 158 Autumn 2019 Click here to read online Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and…
THE JAZZ RAG 157 Summer 2019 CLICK HERE TO READ ONLINE Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and…
THE JAZZ RAG 156 Spring 2019 CLICK HERE TO READ ONLINE Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and…
Spring 2019 Click here to read online Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and features, including: The scandalous…
The Jazz Rag 154 Winter 2018 Click here to read online Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and…
The Jazz Rag 153 Autumn 2018 Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and features, including: Big Bear…
The Jazz Rag 152 Summer 2018 Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and features, including: – Scott…
The Jazz Rag 151 Spring 2018 Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and features, including: -Plan your summer…
The Jazz Rag 150 Winter 2018 Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and features, including: -Alan Barnes looking back at…
The Jazz Rag 149 Winter 2017 Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and features, including: Charlie And His Orchestra…
The Jazz Rag 148 Autumn 2017 Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and features, including: Dave Green’s journey…
The Jazz Rag 147 Summer 2017 Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and features, including: Trumpeters on Retrospective…
Winter/Spring 2017 Featuring Nat Hentoff remembered Jazz Centre UK (Digby Fairweather) Last of the Gunslingers (Simon Spillet) Intakt Records (At…
WINTER 2016 Featuring Chops (New jazz quiz) Non- Musicians in Jazz (Scott Yanow) The Mysteries of Glen Miller (Ron Simpson)…
AUTUMN 2016 Featuring Birmingham and Solihull Festival in Pictures Robert Fowler Rising Star: Alexander Bone Sorry Mr. Margolick John Billet…
AUTUMN 2016 Featuring Lady and the Communists (Origins of Strange Fruit) Jim Chapin Get in right: Joe Temperley Still swinging?:…
SPRING/SUMMER 2016 Featuring Julian Marc Stringle Who was George Frazier? Whisper Not (Benny Golson’s Autobiography) Epistles to the World (South…
SPRING 2016 Featuring Earl Hines (New Collection) 26 & Counting (Lady Sings the Blues Recordings Anniversary) New Branch of Jazz…
WINTER 2015 Featuring David Gordon Trio (New CD) Obituaries (Don Rendell, Allen Toussaint) Newark Jazz Exhibit (Jewish & African-American Jazz)…
AUTUMN 2015 Featuring British Jazz Awards 2015 with Art Themen nominated Alan Barnes talks to Ron Simpson Keeping it in…
SUMMER 2015 Featuring Leroy Jones (New Orleans Trumpeter) The Surprising Melody Gardot (Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist/Pianist) Visiting Birmingham (European Musicians at the Jazz…
SPRING 2015 Featuring Melody Gardot (CD Review) Holiday in Birmingham (Billie Holiday 100th Birthday Year Celebrated) Happy Birthday Billie (Madeleine…
WINTER 2015 Featuring Digby’s Half Dozen at 20 (20th Anniversary) Vick Ash (Jazz Clarinettist Remembered) Mike Burney (Jazz Tenor Saxist…
WINTER 2014 FEATURING Lady Sings the Blues, Celebrating Billie Holiday Brian Lemon, Jazz Pianist Remembered The 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival…
AUTUMN 2014 FEATURING Coleridge Goode (A Tribute to the Jazz Bassist) On the Road with the Basie Band Los Angeles…
SUMMER 2014 FEATURING Brecon Jazz Festival (Celebrating 30 Years) 10 Overlooked Jazz Greats Red Hot Pepper (Pepper and the Jellies…
SPRING 2014 FEATURING Curtis Stigers (American Singer/Songwriter/Saxophonist) Happy 100th Birthday (Jazz Musicians born in 1914) Retrieving the Memories (Ron Simpson…