The music Emma Rawicz and Gwilym Simcock produce together is immediately captivating, and the intensity of their interaction is compelling. Saxophonist Rawicz describes the sessions that led to this ...

Triskel Arts Centre, Cork ★★★★☆ Solo piano has a long and noble tradition in jazz. From Scott Joplin, the “king of ragtime”, at the turn of the last ce ...

Throughout its history jazz has been in fashion and out of it – but it’s never gone away. Jazz is at its heart Black American ...

In the mid-1970s Keith Jarrett wasn’t just a popular jazz pianist. He was a genuine phenomenon so astoundingly productive ...

Before the big hats, the giant lemons and the stadium-sized shows, U2 were a simple but passionate post-punk band from Dublin. U2 in 1980: The Edge, Bono, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jnr.

In the 1950s, Warhol designed a series of classical and jazz album covers, commissioned by labels such as Columbia and RCA Victor. His fluid ink drawings – often enhanced by techniques like the ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past ... basics of the guitar—enough to play rhythm in a covers band. When he was 12, his adoptive mother, who ...

Mala Emde plays the spitfire teenage promoter who convinced Jarrett to perform on a broken piano, and in doing so made jazz history. On January 24, 1975, Keith ... into a double album, “The ...

As 80% of the film was shot in a studio, I wanted to give it some air. I’m a great admirer of Keith Jarrett, who started these piano solos at this point and who is touring Europe. And you can ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Keith Jarrett’s 1975 double album, The Köln Concert ... likely to come across the famous black-and-white cover shot of the American jazz pianist, eyes closed ...

a rebellious teenager in 1970s Cologne who risks everything to organize a concert with jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. That concert yielded “The Köln Concert,” which sold an astounding 4 million ...