Sebastian writes: 

There are some reviews from our archive, now approaching 10,000 articles, which are so well-written, I have been excited to discover how they would sound as audio.

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This is the first of a series. We commissioned actor Lisa Diveney (*) to record Chris Parker‘s wonderful review of the Jan Garbarek Group at the 2012 London Jazz Festival, origially published HERE, in her home studio:

(*) Actor, director and voice over artist Lisa Diveney (WEBSITE) is originally from Wales. She trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has been working for 15 years in the industry, appearing in television shows such as Call the Midwife, Harlots and Grantchester. She was Emerging Director at National Theatre of Wales in 2019 and is a member of the Young Vic Directors Programme.

Audio edit by Lisa Diveney and Rob Edgar

Extract from “Twelve Moons” from the album Dresden by the Jan Garbarek group courtesy of ECM Records 

Photo by Tim Dickeson at Au Gres du Jazz 2017.