With so much amazing jazz music out there, figuring our your favourite artists is a good step towards refining your search. Whilst there are so many new players to discover (hence our extensive new album reviews!) in this article we’ve rounded up a list of the most famous jazz musicians in history as a good … Read more
Whilst the topic of ‘best jazz songs’ is fraught with disagreement, coming up with a selection of the most famous is a slightly less daunting matter… If you look at most lists, though, they almost always roll our the same selection of bestselling songs. The problem – for musicians – is that they end up … Read more
Whilst any instrument can, in theory, play this style, there are a key collection of ‘jazz instruments’ which have established themselves as the go-to ones in this genre… As with any music genre certain instruments ‘speak’ to that idiom more clearly and emphatically than any others. Western classical music makes use of brass, woodwind and … Read more
Since its inception as a distinct musical genre in its own right, jazz has had many “styles” attributed to it. While such labels were useful to give an indication of what the listener could expect to hear, the reality was (and is) somewhat different. Jazz by its very nature is a rapidly evolving music and … Read more