Tenor saxophonist, flautist and composer Tori Freestone won the The Ivors Composer Award for Jazz Ensemble for her composition “Birds of Paradise”. The piece features Freestone on flute/triangle, vocals by Brigitte Beraha, […]
Tori Freestone at Pizza ExpresPhoto credit: José Carlos López RuizTori Freestone’s Birthday Gig(Pizza Express, 13 February 2018. Review by Brianna McClean)The audience was at capacity at Pizza Express Live, as saxophonist and […]
Tori Freestone at the Manchester Jazz Festival 2014Photo credit: David McLenachan/mjfTori Freestone Trio.(606 Club, 27th July 2016. El Barranco CD launch. Review by Patrick Hadfield)On a hot, humid evening, Tori Freestone led […]
Tori FreestoneAlcyona Mick and Tori Freestone plus Jon Thorne’s Sunshine Brothers(Manchester Jazz Festival, 5 August 2015. Review by Peter Slavid)I am lucky enough to be spending a few days in Manchester during […]
Tori FreestoneDrawing by Geoff Winston. © 2015. All Rights ReservedTori Freestone Trio(Vortex, 27 July 2015; review and drawing by Geoff Winston)Tori Freestone’s elegant tenor phrases floated in over Dave Mannington’s soft, flowing […]
Henri Texier at New Morning, ParisPhoto Credit: Thibault Geenen/Creative CommonsHenri Texier Hope Quartet plus Tori Freestone Trio. (The Purcell Room, EFG London Jazz Festival, 16th November 2014. Review by Patrick Hadfield.)Opening for […]
Tori Freestone Trio- In the Chop House(Whirlwind Recordings WR4648. CD Review by Alison Bentley) There’s no shortage of chops in saxophonist Tori Freestone’s new CD In the Chop House. This trio album […]
Tori FreestonePhoto Credit: Cat Munro. All Rights ReservedCatherine Ford spoke to saxophonist/flautist Tori Freestone about her trio, her musical aesthetic, her life, and her new CD: In the Chop House (released on […]
Tori Freestone. June 2012. Drawing by Geoff Winston. © 2012. All Rights ReservedLen Aruliah Sextet and Tori Freestone Trio(Jazz at the Salisbury. 3rd June 2012; review and drawing by Geoff Winston) You […]
READ ELSEWHERE Liane Carroll…Anthony Strong…Pizza Express has a new Piano Lounge Downstairs venue in St Martin’s Lane. No admission charge, but tables do need to be booked – read more Gwen Ansell […]
READ ELSEWHERE Dorsay Alavi’s film about Wayne Shorter “Zero Gravity” will screen on Amazon Prime on what would have been his 90th birthday, 25 August – read more …there is a trailer […]
READ ELSEWHERE There are some day tickets left for this weekend’s We Out Here Festival in Dorset – read more RIP cellist Tristan Honsinger (1949-2023/ photo above by Michael Jackson from Jazz […]
READ ELSEWHERE Life in the moment becomes eternal – a memorial being unveiled in Suleczyno, the site of the Jazz w Lesie Festival. to Jarek Smietana by his daughter Alicja – read […]
READ ELSEWHERE Tony Bennett (Photo copyright John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk) is remembered by Alexis Petridis in the Guardian – read more Ethan Iverson recalls his encounters with Tony Bennett – read more Ted Gioia […]
READ ELSEWHERE RIP Mick Sexton, who worked for both Mary Greig’s Jazz in London and Sarah Chaplin’s Jazz London Live (image with Sarah above) – read more RIP East German free saxophonist […]
