Larry Stabbins News Today

All in all, then, a post-Christmas chocolate box of all our favourite jazz-wise flavours (and not a turkey amongst them).

December brings all kinds of seasonal treats for the jazz-minded music fan and lovers of world music grooves.

A cracking month for the Bristol jazz scene gets going straight away with a star-spangled display of all kinds of jazz and funk fireworks

Forty years ago Barry McRae saw the avant-garde saxophonist in the famous Oxford St basement, supported by the Howard Riley Quartet

Founder of the bands Afro Celt Sound System and the Imagined Village, who produced albums by Manu Dibango and Baaba Maal

Only 28 days and yet so many great jazz-related opportunities means tough choices but plenty of syncopated fun to be anticipated.