Babelfish – Once Upon a Tide (Moletone 007. CD Review by Alison Bentley) When is the best time to record a new album? Babelfish waited till the end of their 2018 UK […]
Babelfish – Once Upon a Tide
2019 Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize winner announced
Peter Bacon reports: The Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize has its ninth recipient: saxophonist and composer Alexander Bone. The Royal Academy of Music and Edition Records are the joint promoters of this annual award. […]
Guitar Summit (Kings Place, 18-21 July)
The International Guitar Foundation’s four-day Guitar Summit at Kings Place covers the full range of fret activity, from classical to sophisticated pop, taking in lute music, jazz and flamenco along the way. Rob […]
Jazz Promotion Network Conference: ‘Stand Out’ (Glasgow, 20-21 June 2019)
The Jazz Promotion network exists in order to “advance and support professional development, information exchange and partnership opportunities for the UK & Irish jazz industry, artists and audiences”. The network has just […]
Polish Jazz London – a monthly series (4 July to 21 November 2019)
B Side Events are bringing to London the best Polish contemporary/avant garde jazz by some of the most interesting and highly acclaimed artists to come out of Poland in recent years. Tomasz […]
Avishai Cohen – Arvoles
Avishai Cohen – Arvoles (Rough Trade. 0190296901881. Review by Dick Hovenga*) Arvoles brings bassist Avishai Cohen back to jazz after an excursion into pop with 1970, the album he released last year. […]
Wendy Kirkland (second album, The Music’s On Me, released 20 July)
It’s “both a consolidation of the first album and something a bit different”. Pianist, singer and lyricist Wendy Kirkland tells Rob Adams about her new album, The Music’s On Me, and why […]
Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella & Eivind Aarset – Lost River
Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella & Eivind Aarset – Lost River (ECM 774 5607. CD review by Peter Bacon) On What Floats Beneath (track three on this disc released at the end of […]
Zoe Francis with Jim Mullen and Ross Stanley – Blue Town
Zoe Francis with Jim Mullen and Ross Stanley – Blue Town (Zoe Francis Records. CD Review by Brian Blain) No one makes a fortune accompanying UK jazz singers, so the fact that […]
Elbjazz 2019, Hamburg
Elbjazz 2019 (Hamburg, 31 May/1 June 2019. Festival Round-Up by Stefan Hentz*) Hamburg-based writer Stefan Hentz recently won the most prestigious award for writing about jazz in Germany, the Preis für Deutschen […]
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