Ray Swinfield, who played woodwinds with everyone from Count Basie to The Beatles, died earlier this month at the age of 79. Lindy Swinfield has very kindly shared with LondonJazz News this […]
Peter Bacon reports: Birmingam bassist Chris Mapp’s Stillefelt, his Norwegian-influenced trio project with trumpeter Percy Pursglove and guitarist Thomas Seminar Ford, is playing a four-day residency at the Artefact centre in Stirchley, […]
Peter Bacon reports: British saxophonist Stan Sulzmann – surely one of the most admired and certainly one of the most loved jazz musicians in the UK – has a new album coming out […]
Sam Eastmond’s Brit-Ish (JW3, 17 October 2019. Review by Daniel Marx) John Zorn’s Radical Jewish Culture movement is rooted in a place. The Jewish culture of New York is well-defined and recognisable, […]
Jazz & the City, Salzburg – Part 2 (Various venues in Salzburg. 19-20 October 2019. Round-up by Leah Williams) New Orleans songstress Mykia Joven was the literal poster girl for Jazz & […]
Pianist, singer and composer Joy Ellis isn’t wasting any time. Just two years after the release of her debut album, her second one Dwell is coming out. Leah Williams spoke to her about […]
Jazz & The City Festival – Part 1 (Various venues, Salzburg, 17/18 October 2019. Round-up review by Leah Williams) Landing quite late on the second official day of Salzburg’s Jazz & the […]
Morten Schantz Godspeed (Pizza Express Dean Street. Sounds of Denmark Revisited. 16 October 2019. Review by Mary James) Thousands of miles together in planes, weeks away from home, gigs in Copenhagen, Beijing, […]
Rich Perry – Other Matters (SteepleChase SCCD 31876. CD Review by Frank Griffith) Other Matters is tenor saxophonist Rich Perry‘s 25th release for Steeplechase, a label which he has been recording with […]
Marc Copland Trio – And I Love Her (Illusions Mirage IM4004. CD review by Mike Collins) In a recording studio somewhere, the drummer drops into a groove: a ghost of a backbeat; a […]
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