This New Jersey pianist helped bridge the transition from ragtime to jazz with his stride piano technique, which built on ragtime’s locomotive, see-saw jauntiness but added more sophisticated ...

BR Editor Iwan Fox finds out more about the works from Derek Bourgeois, Morley Calvert, Oliver Waespi, Jacob de Haan and ...

On the record I also hear the lightness of Bob James and even a Harry Beckett-like jauntiness in You Can’t Write Tears, although the band isn’t afraid of an exhilaratingly noisy coda (Kirkstall Abbey) ...