John Zorn’s The Bagatelles (Performance Space, City, University of London. 11 April 2022. Review and top photo by Peter Slavid) The name of John Zorn tends to elicit extreme reactions from […]
John Zorn’s ‘The Bagatelles’ at City University
FESTIVAL ROUND-UP: 2017 Sarajevo Jazz Festival (Part One – 31 Oct. to 2 Nov. – John Zorn )
Gyan Riley and Julian Lage with John ZornPhoto credit: © Armin Smailovic Sarajevo Jazz Festival (31 October to 2 November 2017. Days 1 to 3. Festival Round-Up Part One by Tony Dudley-Evans) The […]
CD REVIEW: The Spike Orchestra – Cerberus, Book of Angels Volume 26 by John Zorn
The Spike Orchestra – Cerberus, Book of Angels Volume 26 by John Zorn(Tzadik TZ 8338. CD Review by Peter Slavid) John Zorn has always been a fascinating and polarizing character. I’ve been […]
Zorn@60 at the Barbican
String Quartet for The Alchemist. Zorn@60. Barbican July 2013Drawing by Geoff Winston. © 2013. All Rights Reserved Zorn@60(Barbican, 12th July 2013; review and drawing by Geoff Winston) For once, John Zorn didn’t […]
Preview: Jazz Middelheim in Antwerp. Featuring both Jamie Cullum and John Zorn
John Zorn. Photo credit: Stefano Bertoncello Peter Slavid previews the Jazz Middelheim festival, which takes place in the Park den Brand in Antwerp from 12-15 August If you feel like a few […]
Mondays With Morgan: Michael Blake (new album ‘Dance of the Mystic Bliss’ with Chroma Nova)
Mondays With Morgan is a column in LondonJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves him – […]
Gur Liraz (debut album as leader, ‘Squiggles’ – Ubuntu Music – release 19 May)
In his debut album as leader, “Squiggles”, Tel Aviv-born, Berlin-based guitarist Gur Liraz celebrates the classic organ trio with Tal Balshai (organ) and Omri Gondor (drums). Feature by John Bungey. As a […]
Trichotomy – ‘To Vanish’
Trichotomy – To Vanish (Earshift Music – Review by Bruce Lindsay) Six years after the release of Known/Unknown Trichotomy, the Australian piano/bass/drums trio formed in 1999, returns with studio album number eight, […]
Moss Freed & Union Division: ‘Micromotives’
Moss Freed & Union Division: Micromotives (Discus CD147. Also mentioned is the album launch Vortex Jazz Club 25 January. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans In his very informative notes on the CD […]
Charlotte Glasson (‘Bonito’ album launch. Pizza Express Soho, 25 August 2022)
“If you’ve ever wondered what smiles sound like, this is it!” (Hot Press, Ireland). Brighton- based saxophonist/ multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Glasson brings her 6-piece band to Soho’s Pizza Express on Thursday 25 August […]
10 Tracks by Earl Hines I Can’t Do Without…by Liam Noble
In this edition of ’10 Tracks I Can’t Do Without, a series in which jazz musicians do a personal deep dive into the music of their antecedents and idols, Liam Noble considers […]
Phil Robson – ‘Portrait In Extreme’
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 […]
Ten Tracks by Bill Frisell I can’t do without… by Liam Noble
For the LJN “10 Tracks I Can’t Do Without” series, in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, Liam Noble writes […]
#IWD2022: NYJO Chief Executive Susie York Skinner
Susie York Skinner (*) is Chief Executive of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO). NYJO, as she explains in this interview for International Women’s Day, is much more than a large ensemble putting […]
Mark Lockheart – ‘Dreamers’
Mark Lockheart – Dreamers (Edition Records, EDN1195. Review by Graham Spry) Mark Lockheart is a saxophonist and composer who first entered national consciousness in the 1980s with Loose Tubes, and was later […]
