Celebrating Duncan Lamont (606 Club. 24 February 2020. Review by Brian Blain. All photos by Tony Day) If the show at Steve Rubie’s great 606 club in Chelsea last Monday to celebrate […]
“Celebrating Duncan Lamont” at the 606 Club
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Alison Rayner Quintet (ARQ) at Pizza Express Dean Street
Alison Rayner Quintet (ARQ) (Pizza Express. 26 February 2020. Review by Alison Bentley) Sometimes the mood of a gig lingers on long after it’s over. British bassist Alison Rayner’s Quintet were […]
Brecker Brothers – “Live & Unreleased” (Hamburg, 1980)
Brecker Brothers – Live & Unreleased (Leopard / Delta Music Media. DELTAN77072 Album review by Rob Mallows) I never saw the Brecker Brothers in their seventies and early eighties jazz-funk pomp. I […]
Scottish Jazz Weekend in Edinburgh
Scottish Jazz Weekend. (Various venues in Edinburgh, February 21-24. Review and all photos by Patrick Hadfield) In an otherwise fallow period, for the second year the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival programmed […]
Mhenwhâr Huws – “Body Control”
Mhenwhâr Huws – Body Control (Self-released. CD review by Fiona Mactaggart) One of the most interesting things about this Glasgow-based experimental, improvising string and percussion quartet, is perhaps the meaning behind band’s […]
Canadians in London (London Column from JAZZTHETIK Apr-May 2020)
Sebastian’s regular London Column in April-May edition of the German Magazine JAZZTHETIK, with Estonian singer Kadri Voorand on the cover, looks at Canadians in London: What is it about Canadians that makes […]
Karen Sharp Trio – “Another Place”
Karen Sharp Trio – Another Place (KLS Records – KLS001. CD Review by Graham Spry) Saxophonist Karen Sharp first made her mark on British jazz as a member of Humphrey Lyttelton’s eight-piece […]
Nick Costley-White “Speak Like A Child” Sextet at Pizza Express Dean Street
Nick Costley-White “Speak Like A Child” Sextet (Pizza Express Dean Street. 23 February 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney) What a great project. Speak Like a Child was an album by Herbie Hancock […]
Rodney Green and ‘Jackson Miller’ (Pizza Express Dean Street, 1 March, plus free clinic)
‘Jackson Miller’ is a new band, the brainchild of drummer, composer and sound designer Rodney Green, which will be in London for the first time this Sunday. In this project he takes […]
The Milk Factory – “Aula”
The Milk Factory – Aula (De Werf Records W.E.R.F.163. CD Review by Dick Hovenga*) Ghent jazz band The Milk Factory is quite exceptional. In 2018 we heard them live, at the renowned […]
Art Themen – “Thane & The Villeins”
Art Themen – Thane & The Villeins (Hadleigh Jazz Records. CD review by Leonard Weinreich) In the good ol’ days of American legend, when men sported hand-painted ties and automobiles sprouted fins, […]
John Ghost – “Airships Are Organisms”
John Ghost – Airships Are Organisms (SDBANUCD11. CD review by Dick Hovenga*) Flemish sextet John Ghost deserves all of our attention. Their debut album, For A Year They Slept, made quite the […]
Kamasi Washington at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn
Kamasi Washington (Kings Theatre, Brooklyn. 20 February 2020. Review by Dan Bergsagel) It has probably been five years since Kamasi Washington last played an intimate venue, but the Kings Theatre is really […]
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, Niall Greig Fulton – “Planet Wave” in Edinburgh
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Niall Greig Fulton – Planet Wave (Queens Hall Edinburgh, 21 February 2020. Review by Mark McKergow) The SNJO re-stretched their musical boundaries with this emphatic performance of […]
4th Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition open for entries
Mary James writes: The fourth Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition will be held in Lusławice, Poland, from 7-10 July 2020. The competition is open to violinists, violists and cellists of all […]
