Jazz

When the great French composer Michel Legrand died in January of 2019, Melissa Errico could not have imagined how his spirit would come to dominate her year. Asked by The New York Times to offer the eulogy to her beloved collaborator, on Jan. 28, the...

When Low-Fly Quintet released their debut album, "Stop For A While" on Losen Records in October 2017, multiple Norwegian reviewers awarded 6 out of 6 eyes on the dice. They also achieved acclaim from jazz reviewers abroad. One of them being the renowned...

When Jaco Pastorius solo debut appeared in 1976, a new standard in both jazz and the electric bass guitar was born. Many of the the tracks on that eponymous album had their genesis two years earlier when a 22 year-old Pastorius and friends used...

When Duncan Bellamy and Jack Wyllie - the driving force behind Portico Quartet, got together in their East London studio in May 2020 and started work on the music that would become their new album, the world, or most of it, was in the midst of the first...

When Bernard Purdie is not helping some big star the likes of Aretha Franklin, Isaac Hayes, Donny Hathaway and B.B. King to create a fantastic studio sound, the drummer pursues his own projects such as "Soul to Jazz", two albums he recorded in 1996 and...

When a French trombonist brings together a jazz septet with 3 young Cuban percussionists to reinterpret Afro-Cuban sacred music, you get one of the most exciting jazz projects of the year!1. Kabiosile (Saludo a Changó) 2. Nganga 3. Calle Luz 4. Que Vola...

What started as a rehearsal between three founding members of Color Red has evolved into a spirited project featuring Jeff Franca (Drums - Thievery Corporation), Josh Fairman (Bass - co-owner of Scanhope Studios, artist of Sunsquabi/Analog Son), Mike...

What makes a legend? Ella Fitzgerald fans would say her music - 200-plus albums' worth of it, recorded over half a century, which continues to attract new converts. There's also a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, awarded in 1960, the charitable...

What happens when jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins encounters another great sox player Ben Webster? Find out with this classic album repressed on 180 gram vinyl.

What does hell look like? The introduction of Toy Machine skateboard's seminal 1996 video Welcome to Hell with it's pulsing overlay of the Stars and Stripes on top footage of police officers, businessmen, and fast food service workers, would appear to...

What an unbelievable record. From the wild cover to the iconic breakbeats, Roots from Ian Carr's Nucleus is one of the dopest albums we know. This is seriously thick, funky-prog jazz-rock heaven. Originally released on Vertigo in 1973, other than a...

We've got a bit of an obsession with Hozan Yamamoto here at Mr Bongo! A legend of Japanese jazz, he is rightly regarded as a true master and was recognised as a "living national treasure" by the Japanese government in 2002. Over five decades he pushed...