After making a living as a musician for 56 of his 69 years and having performed in 101 countries around the world, you’d ...

Dear listeners of Le Music Hot, I’ve got a surprise for you this month! My erstwhile collaborator Hal Smith is wending his ...

Since its formation in 1986 by the late Johnny Parth, the Document label has compiled a rather huge catalog with the goal of ...

Veteran British jazz drummer John Petters, who produces many of the Upbeat CDs, previously compiled Swinging Down Memory Lane ...

Throughout its history, jazz musicians have often drawn its repertoire from other sources, transforming the music into jazz.

In May of 2025, Barcelona’s internationally praised Sant Andreu Jazz Band, consisting of young musicians ranging from ...

While dance music was always much more popular in Great Britain in the 1920s and ’30s than jazz, even the top society bands ...

Gene Bertoncini, a jazz guitarist known for bringing the nylon-string acoustic guitar into swing, standards, and Brazilian ...

Tony Fisher, a British trumpeter whose career joined big-band jazz to decades of London studio work, died September 27. He was 90. Born in Manchester, Fisher began on cornet in brass bands under the ...

Nina Michelle, a Canadian-raised jazz singer who became a familiar presence on the Munich music scene, died unexpectedly October 7. She was 58. Michelle’s early jazz experience included performing in ...

A century ago, they were undoubtedly one of the biggest names in broadcasting in the UK, Europe, and large parts of the world ...