Hiromi Shimizu is the Japanese equivalent of Ronnie Scott or Peter Ind. She is a prominent singer and club owner...

Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University since 1976, Dan Morgenstern was formerly editor of Down Beat and Metronome magazines...

Contemporary jazz trumpeters don't come any better than Randy Brecker and Wynton Marsalis. Their advice is invaluable...

Artie Shaw was born in 1910. Now he is a little unsteady on his feet, slightly hard of hearing, but still full of vim and vinegar...

Beijing is undergoing rapid change. Chinese people are travelling abroad. In the streets, young people are eager to chat...

Shanghai's Peace Hotel has a place in history. Noel Coward wrote Private Lives here. Steven Spielberg filmed some of Empire in the Sun inside the hotel...

In the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan , where Cole Porter lived from 1939 to 1964, Porter's Steinway is played by Daryl Sherman...

Talented students in Osaka, Japan, are extremely polite - and visitors have to wear the correct shoes...

A North Yorkshire promoter brings jazz to the attention of a local audience, and gets it on TV...

Shed all preconceptions before visiting the Tokyo Blue Note to hear the Count Basie Orchestra...

Loren Schoenberg is the Executive Director of the Jazz Museum in Harlem. He is also a pianist, saxophonist, knowledgeable jazz historian, and one-time personal manager of Benny Goodman...

Walkin' in Rhythm. That's the recipe for success for legendary West Coast arranger Bob Florence. He also talks about Vikki Carr, Stan Kenton, Si Zentner, making bread and burning toast...

Dick Hawdon, once at the centre of British jazz, no longer plays. "What would I do? I don't want to go to the pub and play with a local band."

Paul Desmond's composition Take Five made the Dave Brubeck Quartet into the first million-selling jazz group...

'I could have listened to his opinions all afternoon.' Chuck Israels speaks...

The International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) is said to be the fastest growing music education organisation in the world...

Jazz students come to Leeds from all over Britain. After graduating they stay around. It's a sticky city...

Teachers can develop fundamental skills and give a broad, general, view of the past. But can fashion be taught?...

Tips on starting a big band...

Marian McPartland, Autumn in New York

The booklet essay for a Clarinet Classics collection of British jazz clarinettists...

Buddy DeFranco and Alan Barnes: Top Clarinets...

Dennis Rollins and Mark Nightingale are two of the UK's top jazz trombonists. Here they talk about their influences, learning techniques, ideas about improvisation, and the importance of baring your soul...

Sir John Dankworth at 80...

John Dankworth on Wavendon...

Craig Scott...