Peter Bacon reports: Shabaka Hutchings today (26 July) opens the ‘Apply to Play’ prize for grassroots artists who have the chance to showcase their talents at this year’s OneFest, which will be […]
Eli DegibriPhoto Credit: Yossi Zwecker Israeli saxophonist Eli Degibri makes his Ronnie Scott’s debut on Friday 17 May with a quartet of young fellow Israelis who are following Degibri’s example of going […]
Pat Thomas playing Ellington’s ‘Caravan’ at Cafe Oto.Drawing by Geoff Winston © 2019. All Rights Reserved Pat Thomas Plays Duke Ellington(Cafe Oto, 29 April 2019. Review and drawing by Geoff Winston) In […]
Lucio TomasiPublicity picture Jazz Exchange: Paris and Birmingham(Parabola Arts Centre, 4 May 2019, Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Peter Slavid) Until last year this first slot on a Saturday morning at the […]
Abdullah Ibrahim at CheltenhamPhoto: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya(Henry Westons Big Top, 4 May 2019, Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Luke Davidson) Put it down to inexperience. I, who am […]
Nubya Garcia in CheltenhamPhoto credit and ©: John Watson/ jazzcamera.co.uk Nubya Garcia (House of Fraser Basement. Cheltenham Jazz Festival, 3 May 2019. Review by Mike Collins) As the lights dimmed and Gilles Peterson […]
Dualistic – Dualistic(Losen Records. LOS 214-2. Review by Rob Mallows) Imagine if you will a musical Venn diagram. In one circle, people who like jazz; in the other, people who like heavy […]
Tom Cawley – Catenaccio(Ubuntu. UBU0024. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) “Catenaccio” is an Italian term for a style of football, apparently; and since most of the track titles have a link to […]
L-R: Andreas Schaerer, Kalle Kalima, Soweto KinchPhoto credit and ©: John Watson/ jazzcamera.co.uk Sunlight (Kinch/Schaerer/Kalima) + Partisans (Parabola Arts Centre, 3 May 2019. Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Jon Turney) Swiss voice artist […]
Laura MacdonaldPublicity picture As well as the big names, such as the Jan Garbarek Group featuring Trilok Gurtu, the Chris Barber Big Band and Donny McCaslin, the range of gigs offered by […]
FleurinePublicity photo Fleurine and the Boys from Brazil (Birdland Theater, New York. 1 May 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) The pace is fast, but unhurried: the guitar singing a Brazilian groove without breaking […]
John Fordham: “deep knowledge, constant freshness and undulled enthusiasm.”Photo supplied Sebastian writes (*): John Fordham of the Guardian celebrated his 70th birthday early in 2018, but even without the excuse of a […]
Joshua Redman Quartet – Come What May(Nonesuch Records 585291 2. CD Review by Sebastian Scotney) Jazz is a music of connection. Saxophonist Joshua Redman has talked in interviews preceding the release of […]
Hall 6 at jazzahead! 2019Photo credit: M3B GmbH / Jörg Sarbach) Sebastian writes: STATISTICS AND IMPRESSIONS jazzahead! 2019, the fourteenth, was (and has been confirmed officially as) the largest ever: people from 64 […]
Cherise Adams-Burnett singing liveJazz FM Awards at Shoreditch Town HallDrawing by Geoff Winston. © 2019. All Rights Reserved Geoff Winston reports from the Jazz FM Awards: The 2019 Jazz FM Awards was […]
