Charles Owens Trio – 10 Years (La Reserve Records. Album review by Adam Sieff) Tenor saxophonist Charles Owens (born 1972, and not to be confused with the much older saxophonist and former […]
Charles Owens Trio – ’10 Years’
Amaro Freitas – ‘Sankofa’
Amaro Freitas – Sankofa(Far Out Recordings. Album review by Adrian Pallant) There’s always a frisson of excitement when a left-field approach to ‘piano trio’ comes into view; and an online search for […]
The Original UK Jazz Summer School – Cardiff residential course cancelled/ going online again…
Sebastian writes: One could sense the frustration and disappointment in Buster Birch’s voice today… Buster is Director of the Original UK Jazz Summer School had been hoping to hold this year’s course […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021 (5. ‘Statues’ – Jack Bruce, Things we Like, 1968)
The 25th of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) features a British saxophone master on a rare excursion into freedom. Some famous names on this one: Jack Bruce; John McLaughlin. But it’s […]
Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige 2021
Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige, Fri 25 June–Sun 4 July 2021 Preview by Alison Bentley It’s reassuring to know that jazz festivals are happening, even if some of us aren’t allowed to travel […]
John Hart – ‘Checkmate’
John Hart – Checkmate (SteepleChase SCCD 31910. CD review by Mark McKergow) Guitarist John Hart teams up with baritone sax legend Gary Smulyan for this quartet date. The music is confidently calm and laid back, with a […]
Aki Rissanen – ‘Divided Horizon’
Aki Rissanen – Divided Horizon (Edition Records EDN1177. Album review by Jon Turney) This solo keyboard offering from a leading light of Finnish, and indeed European, jazz is a splendid hybrid creation. […]
Ed Jones / Emil Karlsen – ‘From Where Light Falls’
Ed Jones / Emil Karlsen – From Where Light Falls (FMR Records. Album Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) One feature of the contemporary jazz and improvised music scenes is that many players move […]
‘Man of Words and Music – poet and trumpeter Shake Keane’: (Vortex Online – film premieres on National Windrush Day, 22 June 2021)
Vortex Online will premiere two short films under the title “Man of Words and Music – trumpeter and poet Shake Keane” next Tuesday, National Windrush Day. The full text of the press […]
Flat Earth Society Orchestra – ‘Boggamasta III’
Flat Earth Society Orchestra Boggamasta III (Igloo Records. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Flat Earth Society Orchestra, “the flagship of slightly deranged Belgian jazz” as they call themselves, is a big band that […]
‘Ongemang – Exploring the Spaces in Between’ – (Cafe OTO / Spitalfields Festival, 8 July)
Sebastian looks forward to Ongemang – Exploring the Spaces in Between. This is a premiere performance at Cafe OTO on 8 July, with Kit Downes, Lauren Kinsella and Tom Challenger, and is […]
Duke Ellington’s ‘Sacred Concert’ (Alexandra Palace, 17 July 2021)
Crouch End Festival Chorus will be performing Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert in a concert at Alexandra Palace on Saturday 17 July. In this preview feature, Russell Davies tells the story of how […]
Wadada Leo Smith – ‘Trumpet’ and ‘Sacred Ceremonies’
Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and Bill Laswell, Sacred Ceremonies (3CDs) / TUM Box 003 Wadada Leo Smith, Trumpet (3CDs) / TUM Box 002 Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and […]
Obed Calvaire, Bob Franceschini, Kevin Hays & Orlando Le Fleming – ‘Whole Lotta Love: The Music of Led Zeppelin’
Obed Calvaire, Bob Franceschini, Kevin Hays & Orlando Le Fleming – Whole Lotta Love: The Music of Led Zeppelin (Chesky Records. Album review by John Bungey) Jazz Led Zeppelin? Was this a […]
Five-Way Split at Toulouse Lautrec
Five-Way Split(Toulouse Lautrec. 12 June 2021. Review by Lavender Sutton) Toulouse Lautrec has been back in full swing for a few weeks now with everything from burlesque to singer-songwriters to life drawing […]
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