Protectionism. British jobs for British workers. And the same in the US. It’s coming. But we don’t have to like it. I have already celebrated the luck we as Londoners have to […]

BRECON 2009 WON’T HAPPEN The lead times are reckoned to be too short. They’re calling it a “Gap Year.” The full story comes from BBC Wales CHELTENHAM 2009(28 Apr-5 May)LOOKS GOOD The […]

Julianna Fabian Julianna Fabian from Budapest is not just making her London debut as a singer next week. She’s on her very first trip to London. I was first alerted to this […]

Bill Ashton and NYJO getting intothe Christmas spirit in 2007 An nice profile of Bill Ashton in the Harrow Observer gives me the germ of an idea, to start building up a […]

In Ravenscourt Park, that no man’s land between Hammersmith and Chiswick, sits a low-rise, austere grey-and-white building from the early 1970’s, POSK, the Polish Cultural Centre. It takes its role in the […]

The BBC Wales Website is suggesting there will be some good news next week. Sregnif Dessorc.

An Australian ,in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, said that we Brits are only capable of winning medals in sports which we can play sitting down. Well ,there are three jazz […]

What’s on tomorrow night? And how do you find out? First place to look is the regular six-to-seven nights a week venues. Ronnie’s: Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio, which I’ve already written about […]

The antidote to too many words. Four great bass players. Four real gentlemen. Four good images from Richard Kaby’s site Oli Hayhurst Larry Bartley Dave Green Jeremy Brown

Jean Toussaint has his next appearance at Steve Rubie’s intimate basement club, the 606, in Lots Road, Chelsea on February 5th. Steve Rubie has promoted him regularly, and with good reason. Because, […]

Less than six months ago, Phil Donkin was part of Gwilym Simcock’s trio at the Proms in front of a packed, ecstatic Royal Albert Hall . Live on BBC 2. Profile as […]

It was billed as a prizegiving for student composers; but by the end of the evening at Ronnie’s, you knew you’d attended a celebration. A noteworthy feature of the gig was the […]

This is a first canter round a subject where input is welcome… In symphonic music the way sound comes out of silence is highly ritualized. Not one but two sets of applause […]

Two lines linking the J-word and the R-word reverberate in my mind. -One good friend of mine often re-iterates the opinion that “jazz is in permanent recession.” That’s too bleak. -The romantic […]