CHRIS SEARLE relishes an account of the years when a black American music carried a message of anti-racism and class struggle

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to drummer WILL GLASER

New releases from Cuban pianist Aruan Ortiz, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, and London pianist Geoff Castle

CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a new book that makes working class history come alive in a true story of human flesh and aspiration

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to US pianist Paul Cornish

CHRIS SEARLE encourages you to go hear a landmark performance, and introduces some of the musicians

CHRIS SEARLE hears the ordeal of the Palestinian people in the improvised musicianship of a UK jazz trio

Reviews of the Neil Charles Quartet, the Freddie Hubbard Quintet, and the Olie Brice Quartet

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Chris Laurence, bassist and bandmate of saxophonist TONY COE

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to vocalist Jacqui Dankworth

CHRIS SEARLE pays tribute to the late South African percussionist, Louis Moholo-Moholo

Re-releases from Bobby Wellins/Kenny Wheeler Quintet, Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippet/Louis Moholo-Moholo, and Charles Mingus Quintet

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Ethiopian vocalist SOFIA JERNBERG

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to saxophonist and retired NHS orthopaedic surgeon ART THEMEN

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to saxophonist Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson

CHRIS SEARLE urges you to hear the US saxophonist Joe McPhee on livestream tonight

Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist XHOSA COLE and US tap-dancer LIBERTY STYLES

CHRIS SEARLE wallows in an evening of high class improvised jazz, and recommends upcoming highlights in May