Sebastian writes: The nominations have just been announced for the 2019 ParliamentaryJazz Awards. The awards will be made at a ceremony at Pizza Express Dean Street on Tuesday 3 December 2019. Here […]
Pigfoot – Pigfoot Shuffle (Pokey Records PR001. CD Review by Jon Turney) Pigfoot, Chris Batchelor’s unfailingly entertaining quartet, play other people’s music, taking great tunes from wherever they fancy. New sets often feature […]
Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra – Along for the Ride (Summit Records DCD 747. Reviewed by Nigel Waddington) What a varied and welcome release from NYC trombonist, composer and vocalist Pete McGuinness. This […]
The EFG London Jazz Festival is announcing a free summer event for Saturday 31 August 2019, at Royal Albert Docks. The full press release states: “This summer, the EFG London Jazz Festival […]
Etuk Ubong and The Etuk’s Philosophy (Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, 5 August 2019. Review by John L. Walters) Trumpeter Etuk Ubong is a fresh new voice in the international jazz scene. […]
Sebastian writes: Reports reach us that clarinettist, saxophonist, arranger and educator Robert Sage (Bob) Wilber died on Sunday 4 August at the age of 91. This biography on the Stanford University website sums […]
Kenny Barron Trio (Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. 4 August 2019. International Piano Trio Festival. Review by Peter Vacher) The standout booking for the club’s 2019 International Piano Trio Festival was this opening two-day […]
Aurelius – The Process (Marcuspenrose.com. CD Review by Alison Bentley) Is it better to travel than arrive? For piano trio Aurelius, places do certainly feature in track titles, but there’s no rush to […]
Jeppe Zeeberg – Universal Disappointment (ZEE201901. Review by Peter Slavid) Jeppe Zeeberg is a young Danish pianist who has a Masters degree from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and was a key […]
Gwilym Simcock and The Storyhouse Big Band (Storyhouse, Chester. 2 August 2019. Chester Music Festival. Review by Frank Griffith) Big Band Jazz is truly alive and well in the North-West of the […]
Yur Yesli Quartet (Kansas Smitty’s Bar. 1 August 2019. Review by Sebastian Scotney) What would George Benson have done? If he had played the same series of victorious, emphatic chords that 23-year […]
Prom 16: Angélique Kidjo (Royal Albert Hall. Review by Sebastian Scotney/Pictures by Mark Allan) To bop or not to bop. That is the question. For the people down there in the Royal […]
Paul Bley/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian – When Will the Blues Leave (ECM 7740423. Recorded 1999. CD Review by Olie Brice) The recorded history of jazz gives us glimpses into a process, snapshots […]
Naked City Festival (Beckenham Place Park, 27 July 2019. Round-up by Rachel Coombes) Undeterred by the intermittent downpours, hundreds of Londoners flocked to Beckenham Place Park on Saturday for the inaugural Naked City […]
Swanage Festival (Mowlem Theatre and other venues in Swanage. 13-14 July 2019. Report by Brian Blain) One of the unforeseen positives of what was, as Peter Jones reported in his round-up published […]
