Nigel Price is currently on an extended organ trio/quartet tour, with over forty dates. But for just over a week in mid-October, Canadian guitarist Lorne Lofsky – renowned for his years with […]
JPN has announced a significant part of the programme for its conference to be held this year in Birmingham. One of the themes of the event is inclusivity, with a session specifically […]
Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden(Constellation CST170. Album review by Jon Turney) So we reach the fifth instalment, of a projected 12, of saxophonist and sound artist Matana […]
Mike Westbrook Band of Bands(Pizza Express, Dean Street. 23 September 2023. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) This gig closed in a way that summed up the whole event: with a joyous, witty, […]
John Hart – Resonance(Steeplechase- 31948. Album review by Frank Griffith) Florida-based guitarist John Hart was a longtime resident in NYC from 1984-2012, before relocating to Miami for the post of Head Of […]
Cleveland Watkiss, Mark Mondesir, Frank Harrison, Mark Hodgson (Frank and Mark’s, Iffley Church Hall, Oxford. 20 September 2023. Review by Mark Rowan-Hull) The other evening I went to a local village hall […]
Bruno Råberg (Shapeshifter Lab, Park Slope, Brooklyn . 23 September 2023. ‘Look Inside’ album launch. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Album launches are interesting events: they highlight the excitement of spontaneous live performance […]
Matthew Halsall (Norwich Arts Centre. 22 September 2023. Live review by John Arnett) As Matthew Halsall obligingly explained at the outset, this sold-out show at the Norwich Arts Centre was a game […]
Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick- Make One Little Room an Everywhere(Self-released / Bandcamp link below. Album review by Jon Turney) This is a superb follow up to Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick’s […]
The Oxford-based singer, singing teacher and jazz writer Alison Bentley died at the age of 65 in the early hours of last Friday morning, after a long illness, at her home in […]
In this new three-part interview series, vocalist Nicky Schrire explores the intersection between the jazz and singer-songwriter genres. A jazz singer-songwriter herself, she often wonders what makes for a successful genre-blending song. […]
Pianist Geoffrey Keezer joins the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra for three concerts under the banner of “The Art of Arranging” in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh from Friday 29th September to Sunday 1st October. Rob […]
This Saturday night 30 September at the Royal Academy of Music‘s Susie Sainsbury Theatre, there will be a concert by several alumni/ae to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Academy’s Junior Jazz […]
A new jazz venue opened on Friday: Friday Jazz at Ladbroke Hall. Report by Lavender Sutton There’s a new venue in town tucked away just south of the Grand Union canal in […]
Mondays With Morgan is a column in LondonJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves him – […]
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