New York City: is it still a Mecca for musicians on the make?For many jazz musicians, taking a bite from the Big Apple is an essential rite of passage. Here, some of the city’s Irish players talk about their experiencesSat Apr 05 2014 - 01:00
John Scofield: ‘Be honest, play what’s inside, steal from everyone you can’Over dinner in downtown Manhattan, the guitarist talks about what he learned growing up in the heady days of New York’s jazz sceneMon Mar 10 2014 - 01:00
Great vision: Iain Ballamy’s all-seeing saxophoneBallamy is a man of many talents, from his time with an anarcho musical commune to reviving English folk songs and writing an agony uncle columnFri Jan 24 2014 - 01:00
Ahmad Jamal: an American classicJamal, one of the most celebrated pianists in American music, doesn’t conform to the stereotype of jazz men of his generation. But then, he doesn’t even call it jazzFri Jan 10 2014 - 01:00
Maria Pia de Vito, François Couturier, Anja Lechner, Michele Rabbia: Il PergoleseFri Dec 20 2013 - 00:00
Larry Goldings: from frontman to sideman and back againGoldings has balanced his career between playing his own music and being a keyboardist for the likes of James TaylorWed Dec 11 2013 - 01:00