Various artists – To The Jazz Bar With Love (The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh. Digital album review by Mark McKergow) The Jazz Bar, hub of the music in Scotland’s capital is, like every […]
Various artists – “To The Jazz Bar With Love”
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AuB – “AuB”
AuB – AuB (Edition Records EDN1155. Review by Jon Carvell) There is virtuosity in all four corners of AuB, a new quartet formed at the confluence of two formidably talented young tenor […]
First Jazz Festival since lockdown in the world (?) to start on 2 June
Sebastian writes. We congratulate Raimund Meisenberger of the Passauer Neue Zeitung on his scoop, reporting what we believe to be the first jazz festival in the world since lockdown. He reports that […]
Nominations Announced for 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Awards
The nominations are announced for the 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. The recipients will be announced on 30 June. Thank you to all those who nominated LJN for the Jazz Media Award this […]
606 Online Portal now open
“With the Club closed and no idea when we will be able to reopen, this new initiative is critical to the 606’s survival.” Steve Rubie has just announced the openig of the […]
Bruno Heinen Trio (new album “Out of Doors”)
Bruno Heinen’s new album Out of Doors is a successful combination of things normally seen as opposites. It has structure and form but also a great sense of spontaneity and flow. It […]
“Inside Scofield” – Interview with film director Joerg Steineck (Kickstarter campaign opens today 26 May)
“Inside Scofield”, according to the pre-publicity for the film, “is the in-depth portait of the life of the legendary musician, composer and family man John Scofield – and a love letter to […]
Jimmy Cobb (1929-2020)
Rob Adams remembers drummer Jimmy Cobb who passed away yesterday, 24 May 2020, at the age of 91 When Jimmy Cobb left the studio after the second and final session for Miles […]
In lockdown with… drummer Douglas Marriner
Drummer Douglas Marriner, originally from London, is based in New York – full biography HERE. His music choices in this lockdown interview are marvellously eclectic and wide-ranging… First album you purchased as […]
John Cumming – a personal tribute by Ros Rigby
The passing of John Cumming on Sunday 17 May is deeply felt in the jazz community. Ros Rigby, a good and loyal friend for over fifty years, remembers him: I met John […]
In lockdown with… pianist Niels Lan Doky
Danish jazz pianist, composer and producer Niels Lan Doky has recently been described as “one of the most important pianists that European jazz has given us in the last 45 years.” He […]
The Eddy – Netflix drama
The Eddy (Netflix. TV review by Peter Jones) The Eddy is an eight-part drama series set in and around a jazz club in Paris called, yes, The Eddy. The show’s American director […]
Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet – “Bluebeard”
Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet – Bluebeard (Challenge Records CR73466. CD Review by Rob Adams) Dutch saxophonist Yuri Honing emerged in the mid-1990s with a trio that earned a following, in Scotland certainly, […]
Aaron Parks – “Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man”
Aaron Parks – Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man (Ropeadope records. CD Review by Jon Turney) The second offering from pianist Aaron Parks’ appealing quartet consolidates the approach introduced two […]
Brian Landrus (new album “For Now” with Fred Hersch, Billy Hart and Drew Gress)
Brooklyn-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Dr Brian Landrus has a particular focus on low woodwinds. He has university degrees ranging from jazz performance to classical composition. His tenth album For Now , with […]
