EFG London Jazz Festival 2025: an insider's guide to all the hottest shows No need to improvise your plans when our jazz critic Jane Cornwell has hand picked the 12 hottest tickets to book Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2025
“If Leo Fender had released a Jazz Bass like this back in the ‘60s, it would have changed the entire history of popular music”: The inside story of Adrian Younge’s half-fretless, fuzz-loaded Fender Custom Shop Jazz Bass Having collaborated with the likes of Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan and Kendrick Lamar, Younge joined forces with Master Builder Vincent Van Trigt to recreate his favourite bass sound Guitar World · Sep 10, 2025
“Watching Tony Iommi play Iron Man to demo his signature pickup in person was a borderline biblical experience”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – and is that a new Epiphone double-neck? New launches from Boss, PRS, Fender and Third Man Hardware headline the biggest guitar gear drops this week Guitar World · Aug 30, 2025
“It weaves together wild features into something that could’ve been a producer’s secret weapon in the early 1970s”: Acclaimed producer Adrian Younge’s new semi-fretless signature Fender is perhaps the craziest Jazz Bass the company's ever released Based on Younge's personal Custom Shop build, the limited-edition Masterbuilt model nods to the past while departing radically from convention Guitar World · Aug 26, 2025
Soul veteran Jean Carne: ‘Duke Ellington was a wonderful, grandfatherly gentleman’ She hung out with Earth, Wind & Fire, helped coach Michael Jackson and was the last person to sing with Duke Ellington. Now Jean Carne is enjoying an unexpected second spell in the limelight The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2022