Seemingly never at a loss for a full bore groove or a reason to shake the dust up on the dance floor, the Brighton Beat—a full tilt band of eleven: five horns, two guitars, bass, drums, and two ...

With a three-saxophone front line and no piano, Canada's Shuffle Demons could be mistaken for the legendary Gerry Mulligan Quartet on steroids—could be, that is, until one hears the music, which bears ...

Avant-garde jazz nowadays makes a lot of noise and a lot of speed, but rhythmically it has scarcely moved out of the ’20s; the boys are still thumping along mostly in a 4/4 beat. This old-fashioned ...