Jason Moran – The Harlem Hellfighters (Video premiere, streamed on 22 January 2021.) Here’s an unexpected pleasure. Jason Moran toured this important history-awakening project in 2018, briefly but brilliantly, to mark the […]
What aspects of Brexit would you like us to discuss on 28 January? asks Sebastian On 28 January jazzahead! is hosting a “Virtual Session” to discuss Brexit and its implications. I […]
Alexander Hawkins – Togetherness Music (For Sixteen Musicians) featuring Evan Parker and the Riot Ensemble (Intakt Records. CD review by Geoff Winston) Togetherness Music (For Sixteen Musicians) opens with one of the […]
Rembrandt Trio with Hossain Alizâdeh – ‘Same Self, Same Silence’ (Just Listen Records JL007. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Given its name, it’s not surprising that the Rembrandt Trio is from the Netherlands. […]
Emmet Cohen – Future Stride (Mack Avenue MAC1181. CD Review by Leonard Weinreich) It’s my guess that, at the moment little Emmet was born, his designated guardian angel was a clumsy klutz […]
John Altman writes: There was a time in the late 60s/early 70s when Malcolm Griffiths, who passed away this week aged 79, seemed to be everywhere on the world jazz scene. First […]
Richard Pite writes: Very sad news. Keith Nichols passed away this morning. Keith had gone into London Hospital last Friday with problems relating to a much-delayed prostate operation. Whilst in hospital he […]
“John had a place at the heart of the world scene for improvised music,” writes Evan Parker in this tribute to guitarist and founder of MOPOMOSO John Russell (1954-2021), who passed away […]
Mario Rom’s Interzone – Eternal Fiction (Traumton Records. CD Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The Austrian trio led by trumpeter Mario Rom with bassist Lukas Kranzelbinder and drummer Herbert Pirker is unusual in […]
Sammy Nestico (1924-2021) passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 96. Four bandleaders and arrangers pay tribute to one of the best-known (and most frequently-played) big band arrangers: Denny Ilett: […]
Andy Hague’s Double Standards – Release (Self-released and available from Bandcamp. CD Review by Denny Ilett) Andy Hague has been a mainstay of the Bristol and South West’s jazz scene for over […]
In the third of Jon Turney’s weekly series reflecting on tracks that have stayed with him over the years (introduced HERE), he visits the BIMHuis in 1975 for this live recording of […]
Climbing In Circles (Ubuntu Music) is the “culmination of a slow-burning three-year project” by Nottinghamshire-born drummer Will Glaser in his trio with Matthew Herd and Liam Noble. He explained the background to […]
Part of what we do at LondonJazz News, Sebastian writes, is to give a platform for musicians to write about music and musicians they admire. In my view, a gold standard for […]
Tina May – 52nd Street (and Other Tales)/ The Songs of Duncan Lamont (33 Records. CD Review by Frank Griffith) British jazz singer Tina May celebrates the songs of Scottish born saxophonist/composer/arranger […]
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