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Byas thought himself a swing player, but the sophisticated rhythmic and harmonic invention in his playing pointed towards bebop

Sixty years ago Kirk gave articulate commentary on jazz, including the heretical opinion that Ronnie Scott was better than Tubby Hayes

Steve Voce could be provocative but for Digby Fairweather he will always be 'the big-faced, ever-smiling man who was a regular friend'

Forty years ago Simon Adams reckoned that Ed Palermo, acclaimed by Gil Evans for innovation, was in fact largely ploughing an old furrow

The long-serving and popular Jazz Journal columnist and reviewer Steve Voce died in Liverpool this week, aged 89

Sixty years ago, A. J. Bishop regarded the metropolitan embrace of folk music manifest in Mingus's work as reactionary and pretentious

Different in approach as they might seem, Blakey and Monk show remarkable rapport on their 1957 album, here augmented with bonus tracks

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Candido Camero performs for the Chicago Jazz Festival at the Pritzker Pavilion on Sept. 4, 2016. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/TNS) Something to celebrate in 2021: Jazz centennials from when the art form was young Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune Yes, there’s something to celebrate in 2021: this year’s jazz centennials. Several jazz luminaries were born 100 years ago, when the art form was still in its youth. How soon we’ll be able to mark the occasion in conc...