Tim Berne and Gregg Belisle-Chi- Mars (Intakt CD 374. Album Review by Sam Norris) Mars is the latest brainchild of veteran avant-garde alto saxophonist Tim Berne, released on the always impressive and boundary-pushing […]
Emile Parisien – Louise(ACT 9943-2. Album review by Jon Turney) The impish French Soprano sax specialist Emile Parisien is a Euro-jazz star but here brings three US players into his band to […]
The forty bands for the jazzahead! showcases are announced and are listed here. First the Canadian Night (eight bands); then the European Jazz Meeting (sixteen bands), then the German Jazz Expo (eight […]
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 6 (MSESET6 – 6 CDs. Album review by Chris Parker) Disc 1: Papa Charlie Jackson 1924–29 Disc 2: Memphis Jug Band 1927–34 Disc 3: Barbecue Bob 1927–30 […]
Thursday 3 February will see the London album launch of Adorna (Ulysses Arts) at St Martin in the Fields. The concert and the new album bring together the atmospheric Gregorian plainchant of […]
Immanuel Wilkins – The 7th Hand (Blue Note. Album review by John Bungey) The much-admired young American alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins already fronts a fine quartet. But his second album poses the […]
NCW 4 (Nick Costley-White, Ivo Neame, Conor Chaplin, Lewis Wright) (Sound Cellar, The Avocet, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset. 20 January 2022. Live review by Paul Kelly) The post-industrial seaside Dorset town of Poole […]
The team at the Swanage Jazz Festival has announced its 2022 programme. This year’s festival will be centred around the Mowlem Theatre. The programme will present a very wide cross section of […]
Mary James looks forward to Empirical at the Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford-on-Avon. She writes: Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford-on-Avon kicks off its 2022 spring/summer season with Empirical on Saturday 29 January […]
Loré Lixenberg performs Conlon Nancarrow (Cafe Oto, 10 January 2022. Live review and drawings by Geoff Winston) Mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg’s vocal interpretation of the works for player-piano of American composer Conlon Nancarrow […]
The winners of the 2021/22 edition of the LetterOne Rising Stars Jazz Award are announced: Guitarist Dan Wilson, originally from Akron, Ohio wins the Northern American edition and will perform at ten […]
Shirley Smart Trio (St. Mary’s Church, Perivale. 19 January 2022. Live Review by Peter Slavid) There are very few modern jazz venues in West London, so it was refreshing to find some […]
Philip Freeman – Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the Twenty-First Century (Zer0 Books, 272pp., £14.99pb. Book Review by Jon Turney) Want to turn a collection of columns into a book? Here’s how. Find […]
Sebastian writes: This is one of the more improbable pictures we have published. Two figures from the opposite ends of UK jazz. I asked Digby Fairweather to tell the story of what […]
As his seventh album The Long Run is released on Ubuntu Music, Israeli flautist Mattan Klein continues his ongoing exploration and celebration of Israeli and Brazilian jazz sounds. Profile feature by Nicky […]
