On a sunny evening, Wednesday 8 May, Immy Churchill, Louise Balkwill and Becky Alice performed a gig at Oliver’s to celebrate the music of Anita Wardell, and to raise money to help […]
Kit Downes – a prize, new albums and projects…
Sebastian writes: The news that Kit Downes has recently won the Paul Acket Prize, a major prize in the Netherlands, prompted me to check in with him and to get an update […]
Mondays with Morgan: John Escreet – new album with Mark Turner, ‘The Epicenter of Your Dreams’
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist/composer John Escreet. His next album, The Epicenter of Your Dreams, will be released 7 June 2024. It’s a second recorded […]
Melissa Aldana – ‘Echoes of the Inner Prophet’
Melissa Aldana – Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note Records, 602458277470. Album review by Mike Collins) The steady, resonant, metallic tick of a cymbal; ghostly ripples from a guitar; a distant […]
Mothers In Jazz (92): Maci Miller
American vocalist and songwriter Maci Miller has released five independent CDs and has had notable collaborations and licensing/publishing deals with Disney, as well as international jazz releases in Asia. She has worked […]
Monsterosa – ‘The Seasons in the City’
Monsterosa – The Seasons in the City(Pleasureland Records GBWQ04-33. Album review by Jane Mann) I love the work of Italian, Cuba-born author Italo Calvino (1923-1985), so I was immediately drawn to a […]
Kaleidophon Festival 2024 in Austria
Kaleidophon Festival(Ulrichsberg, Austria 26-28 April 2024. Report by Oliver Weindling) Now running for over 30 years, the Kaleidophon festival takes place at the Jazzatelier in the small town of Ulrichsberg in Upper […]
‘Benny Goodman/Glenn Miller at Carnegie Hall 1939: The Battle of the Big Bands’ – Cadogan Hall, 13 June
“We play it because it’s great music,” says bandleader Pete Long, who will be directing the latest of the Jazz Repertory Company’s recreations of defining moments in jazz. ‘Benny Goodman/Glenn Miller at […]
Terence Collie Quartet at Pizza Express Dean Street
Terence Collie Quartet(Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho. 4 May 2024. Review by Chris Gazzard) The Terence Collie Quartet’s gig at Pizza Express in Dean Street on Saturday 4 May had attracted a […]
Bill Holman (1927-2024): A Tribute by Charlie Rees
The great arranger Bill Holman passed away at the age of 96 last Monday. A three-time Grammy Award winner nominated on sixteen occasions, he was at the forefront of West Coast Jazz […]
Ron Miles feat. Bill Frisell + Brian Blade – ‘Old Main Chapel’, rec.2011
Ron Miles – Old Main Chapel(Blue Note. Review by Andrew Taylor-Dawson) Recorded in 2011 at a performance in Boulder. Colorado, ‘Old Main Chapel’ is a fine document of a collaboration between three […]
Adam Dyer – ‘River Spirit’
Adam Dyer – River Spirit(KamL 0001. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) Pianist Adam Dyer‘s debut album is a winning combination of lively post-bop originals, some romantic ballads and a couple of reworked […]
Shabaka at the Barbican
Shabaka(Barbican Hall, 9 May 2024. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Here’s a paradox. Strangely, it seems easier to tell the story of Shabaka Hutchings’s music, and of the recent radical departure in it, […]
Emma Rawicz becomes 9th BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist
BBC Radio 3 has announced its next cohort of New Generation Artists for 2024-2026, among whom is saxophonist/bandleader/composer/arranger Emma Rawicz. Emma becomes the ninth jazz musician to join the scheme, now in […]
Equal Spirits, ‘Wise and Waiting’ album launch in Bristol
Equal Spirits, ‘Wise and Waiting’ Album Launch(Factory Theatre, Bristol. Sunday 25 May. Review by Mike Collins) It just took a swaying bass line that immediately made bodies move in sympathy, pattering brushes […]
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