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It wasn't easy for trumpeter Clora Bryant to make her way, but Mikhail Gorbachev made her the first female jazzer to play the USSR

The drummer's politically charged, possibly essential 1960 suite with Coleman Hawkins and Abbey Lincoln is reissued on 180g vinyl

Mali Obomsawin’s ‘Sweet Tooth’ utterly defies expectation or convention - it occupies its own universe, arriving from leftfield to blow your mind.

Tonight the Jazz feature spotlight is on a sadly neglected and forgotten great voice of the tenor saxophone: Walter Benton. Walter after touring with Latin bandleader Perez Prado Walter returned to his home town of L.A. and freelanced there until he decided to move to New York in 1960. Here he joined Max Roach and his band and achieved a higher profile. He was asked to do an album for Jazzland Records, a division of Riverside Records run by the indominable Orrin Keepnews. This album is our Jazz Feature but sadly Walter Benton's only album under his name. Walter was given carte blanche and he p...

Roach's album was recently named to the National Recording Registry, a roster of works deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically significant; We Insist! scores in all three categories.