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 […]
Michael Wollny Trio – ‘Ghosts’
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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 […]
Gerald Clayton – ‘Bells on Sand’
Gerald Clayton – Bells on Sand(Blue Note B00349380. CD review by Mike Collins) Gerald Clayton’s second release for Blue Note speaks quietly and thoughtfully. He includes the listener in intimate dialogues and luminous accounts […]
Chris Batchelor (Zoetic tour, 9 June – 2 July)
After the pandemic twice scuppered the unveiling of some of the most idiomatically diverse new music of his versatile career, trumpeter /composer Chris Batchelor, with the quintet Zoetic, is now finally touring […]
John Scofield – ‘Solo’
John Scofield – Solo(ECM 2727. Album review by Denny Ilett) Ever since Joe Pass’ legendary ‘Virtuoso’ series of unaccompanied albums from the late 1970s, the solo recording has been something of a […]
FORJ – ‘Our Space’
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 […]
Alyn Shipton (new book ‘On Jazz’)
Alyn Shipton’s new book On Jazz draws on a weighty archive of interviews he has accumulated in a long career mixing roles as publisher, author, editor, broadcaster and, not least, musician. He explains how […]
Tia Brazda (Pizza Express Holborn, 2 May)
Growing up in Vancouver, Tia Brazda says “singing and writing became like companions” that she still has to this day. Coming to London to promote her new album When I Get Low with […]
10 Tracks by Duke Ellington (as pianist) that I Can’t Do Without…by Liam Noble
In our growing series in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, pianist Liam Noble writes about Duke Ellington as pianist: A […]
Koma Saxo with Sofia Jernberg – ‘Koma West’
Koma Saxo with Sofia Jernberg – Koma West(We Jazz Records. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Petter Eldh must be one of the most versatile, and indeed most brilliant, musicians in Europe. He is Swedish, but studied […]
Liran Donin/Idris Rahman – ‘Earth and Bones’
Liran Donin / Idris Rahman – Earth and Bones(Download review by Patrick Hadfield) At the tail-end of January, Idris Rahman and Liran Donin quietly released this record of their duet of reeds and […]
#IWD2022: Drummer Romarna Campbell
Drummer, composer and producer Romarna Campbell (*) talks about meeting her teenage inspirations, how she nearly gave up drums and the complex challenges of being a Black woman in music. Feature for […]
