Scottish pianist Brian Kellock released a superb solo piano album in 2019, Bidin’ My Time. There are review and purchase links below (*) . His typically modest answer to the “instrument you […]
In lockdown with…pianist Brian Kellock
Jorge Roeder – “El Suelo Mio” (solo bass album)
Jorge Roeder – El Suelo Mio (Self-released. CD Review by Sebastian Scotney) Surely those huge free-standing speakers need to go (I’m often told). They take up far too much room in your […]
Huw V Williams – “Equidistant Between”
Huw V Williams – Equidistant Between (Self-release. Album review by AJ Dehany) “I evolve,” he says, “but I don’t… revolve…” At a time when every man of a certain age has deliberately […]
Samuel Blaser & Marc Ducret – “Audio Rebel”
Samuel Blaser & Marc Ducret – Audio Rebel (Blaser Music. Download Review by Alison Bentley) Some music is made to be firmly in the foreground. This highly original album by Swiss trombonist Samuel […]
Results from the 4th Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition
Johannes Dickbauer and Youenn Rohaut were both awarded Second Prize in the 4th Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition. There was no First Prize winner. This year the competition was held online, 8-10 […]
Kate Westbrook & The Granite Band – “Earth Felt the Wound”
Kate Westbrook & The Granite Band – Earth Felt the Wound (Westbrook Records, WR006. CD review by Duncan Heining) Is it really two years since Kate Westbrook’s last record Granite came out? […]
Hedvig Mollestad – “Ekhidna”
Hedvig Mollestad – Ekhidna (Rune Grammofon, RCD2215. CD review by Rob Mallows) I first saw Norway’s Hedvig Mollestad-Thomassen about seven years ago in the power trio that brought her to the attention […]
Sam Leak (“Absolute Pitch: myths, misconceptions, and learnability” – Online Talks at Midday on 13-17 July)
Pianist/composer Sam Leak is doing five online talks next week Monday-Friday 13 – 17 July, each day at noon, each lasting around forty-five minutes, on the subject of the Cambridge University Ph.D. […]
Tommy Scott Trio – “Going For It”
Tommy Scott Trio – Going For It (Tommy Scott Music – CD review by Mark McKergow) This extraordinary CD sees the re-emergence of British piano wizard Tommy Scott, back on the scene 20 years […]
NYJO Virtual Academy gives experience of playing in a Big Band – and renews sense of community
Sebastian writes: Faced with the challenge of how to adapt its educational work during lockdown, NYJO has put a brand new resource online. The Virtual Academy enables participants (of all ages!) to […]
Holding Press Release for EFG London Jazz Festival 2020
Serious and the EFG London Jazz Festival have put out what amounts to a holding press release – with no specific names or venues mentioned – concerning their plans for the EFG […]
The Return Sessions – Ronnie Scott’s All Stars (first music at the club since March)
The Return Sessions – Ronnie Scott’s All Stars (Livestream 6 July 2020. Review by Lavender Sutton) It feels like a lifetime has passed since some of us have seen the inside of […]
Tribute: Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
Andrew Cartmel remembers Ennio Morricone . He is gone. I can scarcely believe it. He was 91 and I guess I thought he’d live forever. There is a sequence in Cinema Paradiso […]
Petter Frost Fadnes – “Jazz on the Line. Improvisation in Practice”
Petter Frost Fadnes – Jazz on the Line: Improvisation in Practice (Routledge. 254 pp. Book Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Jazz research is becoming increasingly vibrant in Europe, and from here in Birmingham […]
‘The Online UK Jazz Course’ announced by the Original UK Jazz Summer School for 4-6 August 2020
This year the Original UK Jazz Summer School, nominated for a 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Award, is organising a 3-day course . The course will feature a full programme of online sessions open […]
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