The Sixteen with Julian Joseph(King’s Place. Sound Unwrapped series. 27 January 2023. Review by Rachel Coombes) “Well, it certainly doesn’t look like a jazz audience”, I overheard someone say during the interval […]
Sparks & Visions (Theater Regensburg. 27 January 2023. Opening night. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Sparks & Visions is a brand new festival in Regensburg in Bavaria, and the opening night consisted of a top-class triple-bill. The […]
Colin Muirhead has presented Jazz on the Tyne on Hive Radio since 2019, giving news of gigs and events in North East England and supporting musicians with airplay and interviews. Alongside people […]
Reiner Witzel, Richie Beirach, Alex Sipiagin, Joscha Oetz & Tobias Frohnhöfer – The World Within (Jazzsick Records 5165 JS – album review by Charles Rees) If German saxophonist Reiner Witzel is known […]
Bill Laurance & Michael League – Where You Wish You Were (ACT ACT 9961-2. Album review by Rob Mallows) For a duo album by two of the most prominent members of jazz […]
Nora Kamm – ONE (Duya Music DUYA101 – CD review by Mark McKergow) Saxophonist, flautist, vocalist and composer Nora Kamm’s solo debut album is a revelation – packed with jazz, African and […]
Canadian-born, London-resident trumpeter Jay Phelps had a jazz radio show on Worldwide FM from 2020 to 2022. Now he has launched a new video series on Youtube, where he follows jazz […]
Double Jazz FM Award-winning vocalist Georgia Cécile launches two new projects in February, writes Rob Adams Glasgow-born Georgia Cécile, who won UK Jazz Act of the Year and Vocalist of the Year at the […]
Oscar Peterson – Black + White (Film by Barry Avrich. DVD details below. Film review by Liam Noble) It’s the 1970s and, looking straight at the camera, Michael Parkinson proclaims: “My first […]
Watford Jazz Junction was new to the jazz festival scene last year and this second edition has a particular focus on the influence of the Caribbean on UK jazz. We take a […]
Rich Perry – Everything Happens (Steeplechase, SCCD 31937. Album review by Frank Griffith) Veteran NYC saxophonist Rich Perry‘s 2022 CD Everything Happens showcases equally his talents and abilities as composer and player. […]
Beats & pieces Big Band – Good Days (Efpi Records. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Beats & Pieces may call themselves a big band rather than a jazz orchestra, but their music […]
“Mothers In Jazz” is a new series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry […]
Tim Garland and Jason Rebello ‘Life to Life’ London Launch (St Martin-in-the-Fields. 21 January 2023. Review by Sebastian Scotney) We the audience – Tim Garland explained – would be hearing a trio […]
Tessa Souter with Jim Watson, Conor Chaplin and Billy Drummond (Pizza Pheasantry. 20 January 2023. First night of two. Review by Lavender Sutton) Vocalist Tessa Souter has made her way back over […]
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