“We play it because it’s great music,” says bandleader Pete Long, who will be directing the latest of the Jazz Repertory Company’s recreations of defining moments in jazz. ‘Benny Goodman/Glenn Miller at […]
Terence Collie Quartet(Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho. 4 May 2024. Review by Chris Gazzard) The Terence Collie Quartet’s gig at Pizza Express in Dean Street on Saturday 4 May had attracted a […]
Ron Miles – Old Main Chapel(Blue Note. Review by Andrew Taylor-Dawson) Recorded in 2011 at a performance in Boulder. Colorado, ‘Old Main Chapel’ is a fine document of a collaboration between three […]
Adam Dyer – River Spirit(KamL 0001. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) Pianist Adam Dyer‘s debut album is a winning combination of lively post-bop originals, some romantic ballads and a couple of reworked […]
Shabaka(Barbican Hall, 9 May 2024. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Here’s a paradox. Strangely, it seems easier to tell the story of Shabaka Hutchings’s music, and of the recent radical departure in it, […]
BBC Radio 3 has announced its next cohort of New Generation Artists for 2024-2026, among whom is saxophonist/bandleader/composer/arranger Emma Rawicz. Emma becomes the ninth jazz musician to join the scheme, now in […]
Equal Spirits, ‘Wise and Waiting’ Album Launch(Factory Theatre, Bristol. Sunday 25 May. Review by Mike Collins) It just took a swaying bass line that immediately made bodies move in sympathy, pattering brushes […]
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Rosie Frater-Taylor is looking forward to her appearance in the series “Nigel Williams & Jazz FM present”, when she will be singing/playing a live session – and in conversation […]
Makoto Ozone(Pizza Pheasantry. 7 May 2024. Second night of two. Review by Sebastian Scotney) “I think the jazz community seriously underrates Makoto [Ozone],” wrote Gary Burton in his 2013 autobiography ‘Learning to […]
Sebastian writes: one of my obvious takeaways from taking on the role of running the UK’s presence at the jazzahead! trade fair last month is the constant demand for independently-minded UK and […]
In this sixth and final report from the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Peter Slavid writes about the Parabola Arts Centre programme on the Sunday. The final day of the Parabola programme was a […]
Roberto Magris, Europlane for Jazz(Bad Goisern, Austria. Part of European Capital of Culture programme. 25 April 2024. Review by Oliver Weindling) As part of the celebrations of European Capital of Culture in […]
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/ Scottish National Jazz Orchestra / Makoto Ozone(Usher Hall, Edinburgh. 3 May 2024. Review by Patrick Hadfield) Marking the centenary of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and pianist Makoto Ozone […]
READ ELSEWHERE RIP arranger supreme Bill Holman (1927-2024) NEA Jazz Master and ISJAC Hall of Fame inducteee – read more Our good friend Melody McLaren shared photos from great Catalan saxophonist Perico […]
A Bay Area native, Laurie Antonioli is a vocalist and educator. She grew up hearing singers like Nancy King and Mark Murphy in person, resulting in a musical personality that is both […]
