Vijay Iyer Trio with Linda Han-Oh and Tyshawn Sorey / Kaja Draksler & Susana Santos Silva (Pierre Boulez Saal, JazzFest Berlin 2021. Review by AJ Dehany) The Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin […]
Shez Raja (Ronnie Scott’s. 5 September 2021. Review by AJ Dehany Punjab means ‘five rivers’. In early 2020 bass player and composer Shez Raja travelled with his father to the Punjab region […]
Atur Dutkiewicz/Wojciech Niedziela/Piotr Orzechowski/Kuba Stankiewicz/Michał Tokaj/Piotr Wyleżoł – Piano Sketches (AC Records 13. CD review by AJ Dehany) Creative limitations release the imagination. As anyone trying to write or work creatively […]
Gonimoblast – Live with Arve Henriksen/Maja Ratkje(Stoney Lane Records. Review by AJ Dehany) Samplers have been around since the ’60s, so why do they still seem so futuristic? It seems to have […]
FORJ – Our Space(Digital release only. Review by AJ Dehany) FORJ play music the way you want it to be played, with a creativity resistant to running orders but respectful to form […]
Lucid Dreamers (Brigitte Beraha) – Blink (Let Me Out Records. Album review by AJ Dehany) Dreaming continues to permeate the work of Brigitte Beraha’s quartet Lucid Dreamers on this second album Blink, […]
Bristol New Music 2022 (various venues in Bristol, 5-8 May) Angel Bat Dawid + Bendik Giske + Ligeti Quartet + Shirley Pegna/Dominic Lash/Angharad Davies + Kelly Jayne Jones + Sarah Davachi Gert […]
Soweto Kinch is heading off to San Francisco, where he will be Resident Artistic Director of SFJazz for the four days from 19 to 22 May. Preview feature by Tony Dudley-Evans. Two […]
Todd Wills, former music programmer for the Vortex, is Artistic Director at Bristol Beacon, and is about to launch the fourth edition of Bristol New Music festival. A collective involving Spike Island, […]
Rewire Festival (Amare, The Hague, Netherlands, 7-10 April 2022. Festival Round-Up by AJ Dehany) Rewire is an intersection of the determinedly intellectual and the robustly physical that rewards ambition. In its 11th […]
Jazz-funk fusion seven-piece Cong-Fusion’s debut album The World As We Know It is brimming with musical inspirations from Afro-Cuban music, jazz, funk and soul, with deep personal reflections on family, bullying, alcohol, […]
Arun Ghosh – Seclused In Light (The Crescent, York. 24 March. Live review by AJ Dehany) Seclused In Light is a classic Arun Ghosh album, suffused with intense personal feeling driven by […]
Phil Robson – Portrait In Extreme (Lyte Records LR050 digital. Album Review by AJ Dehany) Portrait In Extreme is an approachably avant-garde extended player that presents a thematic exploration of ‘extremity’ from […]
BBC Radio 3 After Dark Festival(Sage Gateshead. Festival Report by AJ Dehany) Sage Gateshead’s first all-night event, After Dark, was an ideal insomnia, a mind-expanding, time-bending 12-hour programme of music and more […]
Chumbo, Jasmine Quintet & Holly Flo Lightly (Written Records Interchanges at Cluny 2, Newcastle. 27 Feb 2022. Live review by AJ Dehany) Purists beware! — Interchanges, the inaugural live event curated by […]
