Vimala Rowe (Spice of Life. Monday lunchtime All-Star Series. 18 October 2021. Review by Romy Summers) This was the third of the All-Star Monday lunchtime sessions at the Spice of Life (LJN […]
Vimala Rowe at the Spice of Life
Nishla Smith (new album ‘Friends with Monsters’ and touring)
Singer and writer Nishla Smith is about to launch her debut album, Friends with Monsters (Whirlwind Recordings). She ” is a natural storyteller” and the album is “a set of inventive narratives […]
Esbe (New Album ‘Under Cover’)
Esbe is a London-based singer, composer, producer, artist and multi-instrumentalist. She studied classical guitar at the Royal Academy of Music. Her background is North African, Middle Eastern, British and Jewish. She has […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021. 42. ‘First Song: For Ruth’ – from Charlie Haden Quartet West, In Angel City, 1988
The 42nd of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features a memorably different saxophone sound. Charlie Haden’s Quartet West project produced a series of albums that were love letters to LA, and its mid-century […]
Matthew Stevens –Â ‘Pittsburgh’
Matthew Stevens – Pittsburgh (Whirlwind Recordings. Album review by Rob Mallows) Matthew Stevens should fall off his bike more often. It’s not that I’m wishing any harm should come to the Canadian guitarist, […]
John Coltrane – ‘A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle’
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (Impulse! Album review by John Bungey) Well, when time travel is invented, this gig at the Penthouse, Seattle, in 1965 will be near […]
Chris Maddock Quartet with special guest Dan Casimir – ‘The Hunt’
Chris Maddock Quartet with special guest Dan Casimir – The Hunt (Ubuntu Records. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Chris Maddock is a young saxophonist who graduated from the jazz course at Birmingham […]
Carl Hyde (new book ‘Jazz Noir’ published today 18 October 2021)
Carl Hyde, who has been an official photographer at Ronnie Scott’s since 2014, is today (18 October) launching a new book of photos, Jazz Noir, consisting of “a selection of images that […]
‘Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 5’ (Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Lonnie Johnson…) plus BOOK.
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series Set 5 1: Blind Lemon Jefferson 1926–29 2: Frank Stokes 1927–29 3: Blind Blake 1926–29 4: Big Bill Broonzy 1927–32 5: Mississippi Sheiks 1930 (Vol. 1) 6: Lonnie Johnson […]
RIP Willie Garnett (1938-2021)
Sebastian writes: The sad news has just reached us that saxophonist Willie Garnett passed away yesterday 15 October 2021. As one musician has just described him to me, “he was the nicest […]
Elliot Galvin (‘London Third Stream’ concert with London Sinfonietta, 17 November, QEH, EFG LJF)
Cassie Kinoshi, Elliot Galvin, Shabaka Hutchings, and Laura Jurd have been commissioned by the London Sinfonietta to write pieces which will be premiered at a “London Third Stream” concert at the Queen Elizabeth […]
606 Club (Oct and Nov dates: Christian Brewer celebration + LJF dates + Bernstein/Mullen premiere)
Jazz is the sound of surprise, and the 606 Club’s programme has some interesting and appealing dates coming up in the next few weeks: Thursday 28 October: A Celebration of Christian Brewer‘s […]
Nicolas Meier World Group (new triple album ‘Magnificent’, and 606 Club launch on 20 October)
Guitarist Nicolas Meier is about to release a new, ambitious triple album, Magnificent, with his World Group, (violinist Richard Jones, bassist Kevin Glasgow and percussionist Demi Garcia Sabat). “The collection often suggests […]
David Ornette Cherry – ‘Organic Nation Listening Club (The Continual)
David Ornette Cherry – Organic Nation Listening Club (The Continual) (Spiritmuse Records – Album review by Graham Spry) David Ornette Cherry, son of trumpeter Don Cherry, was born at the time when […]
Linda Fredriksson – ‘Juniper’
Linda Fredriksson – Juniper (We Jazz Records WJCD40. Album review by Jon Turney) Saxophonist Linda Fredriksson is new to me, but has evidently played in several prominent bands in their(*) Finnish homeland. […]
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