Jemma Freese – Shadowboxing (Available from Bandcamp – link below. Album review by AJ Dehany) Whether pogoing behind a rack of synths with indie art-rockers Maxïmo Park, or hammering avant-hard jazzpunk soundscapes […]
Jemma Freese – ‘Shadowboxing’
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Emma Smith – ‘Meshuga Baby’
Emma Smith – Meshuga Baby(Wingsor Castle Records. Album review by Leonard Weinreich) Call me a pedant, but shouldn’t this album title read ‘Meshuga Bubbele’? For non-Yiddish speakers, the expression ‘meshuga’ has multiple […]
Gwilym Simcock – ‘2022 Version’ of The Impossible Gentlemen to play at Buxton (9 Jul) and Ambleside (3 Sep)
The Jazz Weekend of the Buxton International Festival 2022 will present something of a coup, the first appearance since 2015 of The Impossible Gentlemen, in what is described as a “2022 version” […]
Sarah Chaplin (jazzlondonlive.com) Interviewed for her 200th Radio Show
Sarah Chaplin, who runs the jazzlondonlive.com listings website, which since 2017 has been the online successor to Jazz in London, also does a weekly jazz radio show for Brooklands Radio (DAB and […]
London Contemporary Music Festival 2022 Closing Concert
London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) ‘Hysterical and Happy’ Concert (Woolwich Works, 19 June 2022; review and drawings by Geoff Winston) The final date of LCMF 2022 included three standout solo performances – […]
Ricky Ford – ‘The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford: Paul’s Scene’
Ricky Ford – The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford: Paul’s Scene (Whaling City Sound. Album Review by Adam Sieff) The great tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford (b.1954) as made a hugely enjoyable album […]
Bill Ortiz – ‘Points of View’
Bill Ortiz – Points of View (Left Angle Records. Album review by Bruce Lindsay) Trumpeter Bill Ortiz spent sixteen years as a member of Santana. The job may not have made him […]
Grassroots Jazz: Registered Charity/ website launched/ £13,000 raised. With update 24 June
The momentum behind Nigel Price’s campaign to bring support to grassroots jazz promoters has been picking up momentum in a matter of just a few weeks: Grassroots Jazz is now a registered […]
Roscoe Mitchell at Woolwich Works (LCMF)
Roscoe Mitchell (London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) ‘Exhausted and Hysterical’ concert. Woolwich Works. 18 June 2022 Review and drawings by Geoff Winston) In many ways this was an evening for Roscoe Mitchell, […]
Wadada Leo Smith at Vision Festival, NYC
Wadada Leo Smith (Vision Festival Day 1, Roulette, Brooklyn. 21 June 2022. Review by Dan Bergsagel) The first day of the 26th Annual Vision Festival celebrated Wadada Leo Smith by awarding him a […]
‘Ella Fitzgerald at The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook’
Ella Fitzgerald at The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook (Verve. Album review by Len Weinreich)For most of her career, the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald was managed by the incomparable impresario Norman Granz, […]
Opus 5 – ‘Swing on This’
Opus 5 (Alex Sipiagin, Seamus Blake, David Kikoski, Boris Kozlov, Donald Edwards) – Swing on This (Criss Cross Jazz 1406. Album review by Peter Vacher) The Mingus-minded among LJN readers will recognise […]
Emma Rawicz – ‘ Incantation’
Emma Rawicz – Incantation (emmarawicz.com and Bandcamp. Album review by Mike Collins) Incantation is a set of nine originals from saxophonist Emma Rawicz, a confident and engaging debut recording, that conjures a […]
The Jazz Repertory Company Presents: ‘It’s Trad Dad’ (16 July, 3pm, Cadogan Hall)
The Jazz Repertory Company (JazzRep) is back. It returns to Cadogan Hall with “It’s Trad Dad”, a popular show celebrating “a black and white snap of a different Britain on the brink […]
Albert Ayler – ‘Revelations: The complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings’
Albert Ayler – Revelations: The complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings (Elemental 5-LP or 4-CD set. 5990443. Album review by Jon Turney) Three great saxophonists helped ease jazz out of the initially […]
