Camille Bertault and David Helbock – Playground (ACT 9951-2. Album review by Alison Bentley Prepare to be dazzled by this extraordinary duo: Austrian pianist David Helbock and French singer Camille Bertault. Both […]
Shabaka – Afrikan Culture (Impulse Records – digital release only. Review by Graham Spry) Whereas Shabaka (Shabaka Hutchings) has been called the “young forefather” and the “figurehead” of a whole generation of […]
Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk Deluxe Edition (Atlantic R2 670841/RHINO 603497842384, released 20 May. Album review by Leonard Weinreich)When some empty head on TV exclaims “I’m going to raise my […]
Women in Jazz Media is “a not for profit organization created to help support and create an equal, diverse, safe and healthy Jazz Industry”. WIJM won the Jazz Media Awards at the […]
Myra Melford’s Fire & Water Quintet (Ronnie Scott’s, 1 May 2022. Review and drawings by Geoff Winston) Pianist/composer Myra Melford’s ‘Fire and Water’ project takes its title from a series of vibrant, […]
“Wonderful. It captures exactly the Bill I know.” (Gavin Bryars, referring to the book Beautiful Dreamer) The imaginative programming team at Soundcellar Poole are starting up a bold and interesting new programming […]
The double bassist, bandleader and composer Petter Eldh, originally from Gothenburg in Sweden and based in Berlin since 2009 is to receive Germany’s oldest jazz prize, the SWR Jazz Prize, originally instigated […]
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series (Set 7: MSESET7 – 6 CDs – Album Review by Chris Parker) Disc 1: Lonnie Johnson Vol. 2 1927–32 Disc 2: The Famous Hokum Boys 1930–31 Disc 3: Songsters […]
Sebastian writes: There are evenings when the 606 Club acts as the focal point for the community of jazz musicians. On Monday 9 May, Dave Lewis was the host/organizer of a benefit […]
Bristol New Music 2022 (various venues in Bristol, 5-8 May) Angel Bat Dawid + Bendik Giske + Ligeti Quartet + Shirley Pegna/Dominic Lash/Angharad Davies + Kelly Jayne Jones + Sarah Davachi Gert […]
Ronnie Scott’s has just put on sale a number of shows from June to November. They include a three-night residency for the seven-piece Mingus Dynasty, whose members, as listed on the Ronnie […]
Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark…myths…legends… These are the mysterious places to which SNJO’s new project, also involving Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, actor Blythe Duff and a selection of Scottish traditional musicians, wants […]
Alabaster DePlume – GOLD (International Anthem– IARC0050. Review by Graham Spry) When the album To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 was released in early 2020 on Chicago-based International Anthem label, by […]
‘Round Midnight directed by Bertrand Tavernier, 1986 (The Criterion Collection 2022. Blu-ray review by Jane Mann) At last, Bertrand Tavernier’s ‘Round Midnight is re-released today (9 May 2022) on Blu-ray by Criterion. […]
Paul Dunmall Quintet – Yes Tomorrow Richard Scott – Everything Is All At Once (Discus Music 133CD and 134CD. Album reviews by Tony Dudley-Evans) Discus Music, the Sheffield-based label run by Martin […]
