Jo Lawry – Acrobats(Whirlwind Recordings WR4798. Album review by Paul Kelly) Well here’s a surprise! Australian-born Jo Lawry is best known as a singer with Sting (‘backing singer’ rather under-rates her role I […]
Jo Lawry – ‘Acrobats’
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Watford Jazz Junction, 18-21 May 2023
Watford Jazz Junction was new to the jazz festival scene last year and this second edition has a particular focus on the influence of the Caribbean on UK jazz. We take a […]
Chris Biscoe – ‘Music Is: Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook’
Chris Biscoe – Music Is: Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook (Trio Records tr607. Album review by Jane Mann) This new release is the first that I have come across devoted entirely to […]
Claire Martin & Callum Au: Songs and Stories (Cadogan Hall, 20 Jan 2023)
This unique collaboration between Britain’s star jazz vocalist Claire Martin and Callum Au’s 50-piece orchestra and big band was originally set for its Cadogan Hall debut in June 2020. Their Songs and […]
Wadada Leo Smith – ‘Emerald Duets’ / ‘String Quartets Nos. 1-12’ (boxsets)
Wadada Leo Smith – Emerald Duets / String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (two boxsets)(TUM Records. Review by Olie Brice) The Finnish record label TUM has been doing an impressive job of documenting Wadada […]
Stefany Calembert (Black Lives – from Generation to Generation album and European tour)
Black Lives – from Generation to Generation describes itself as “a collective of artists who are continuing to fight for equality and social justice through music”. The two-disc album features over 60 […]
Cool Jazz, Bossa & Bebop With Strings (Cadogan Hall, London, 20 November 2022)
Returning for the third in their series of orchestral jazz concerts for the EFG London Jazz Festival at Cadogan Hall, Richard Pite’s Jazz Repertory Company presents another exciting programme of iconic music […]
Dispatches from Istanbul / 2022 Akbank Jazz Festival (3)
Francesco Martinelli’s third and final report from Akbank Jazz Festival in Istanbul (24 September-9 October 2022) The spacious, tree-lined streets of the affluent neighbourhood of Suadiye, facing the Prince’s Island on the […]
Dispatches from Istanbul / 2022 Akbank Jazz Festival (2)
Francesco Martinelli’s second report from Akbank Jazz Festival in Istanbul (24 September-9 October 2022) The 32nd edition of the Akbank Jazz Festival saved some of its more famous names for the second […]
Leléka – ‘Sonce u Serci’
Leléka – Sonce u Serci (FM321-2. Album review by Alison Bentley) “I have the sun in my heart,” sings Ukrainian vocalist Viktoria Leléka, and you believe her. This album of mostly traditional […]
Michael Wollny Trio – ‘Ghosts’
Michael Wollny Trio – Ghosts (release date 30 Sep 2022)(ACT 9956-2. CD review by Mike Collins) With the release of Ghosts, pianist Michael Wollny reunites the trio that recorded Weltentraum, the 2014 […]
Ambient Jazz Ensemble – ‘London Fields’
Ambient Jazz Ensemble – London Fields (Here & Now Recordings. Review by AJ Dehany) Ambient Jazz Ensemble is a provocatively misdirecting moniker – not so much ambient as atmospheric, closer in kin to […]
Jakub Klimiuk Quintet (Jazz Cafe POSK, 25 June)
Polish guitarist and composer Jakub Klimiuk will perform with his quintet at Jazz Cafe POSK on Saturday 25 June. This new project combines modern jazz with the influences of Scandinavian improvised music, […]
Up-And-Coming Artists at Love Supreme (1-3 July, Glynde Place)
Brighton-based saxophonist Julian Nicholas looks forward to hearing up-and-coming bands who will be appearing at Love Supreme, the UK’s only greenfield jazz festival, at Glynde Place in East Sussex between Fri 1 […]
10 Tracks by Lee Konitz I Can’t Do Without…by pianist Liam Noble
In LJN’s series where musicians tell us about tracks by their idols that have inspired them, pianist Liam Noble writes about Lee Konitz. He starts with a moment when there was suddenly […]
