Chicago X London — Jeff Parker, Ben LaMar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid, Alabaster DePlume (Barbican. 13 November 2022. Live review by AJ Dehany) You could call 2022 the “Chicago Edition” of the […]
ChicagoXLondon at the Barbican (2022 EFG LJF)
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The Egyptian Jazz Projekt at Grand Junction (2022 EFG LJF)
The Egyptian Jazz Projekt (Grand Junction, Paddington, EFG London Jazz Festival, 15 November 2022. Live Review by Rachel Coombes) Founded in 2015 by the jazz vocalist Ahmed Harfoush, the Egyptian Jazz Projekt […]
Erol Pekcan/Tuna Ötenel/ Kudret Öztoprak – ‘Jazz Semai’ (rec. 1978)
Erol Pekcan/Tuna Ötenel/ Kudret Öztoprak – Jazz Semai (Nova Müzik .Album review by Francesco Martinelli) Forty-four years after its original release, the “Jazz Semai” album, widely considered the beginning of Turkish jazz, […]
Jasper Høiby Planet B at the Purcell Room (2022 EFG LJF)
Jasper Høiby Planet B (Purcell Room, EFG London Jazz Festival, 13 November 2022. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) A foggy (Sun)day in London town might have felt like an unlikely time to engage […]
Dianne Reeves (2022 EFG LJF)
Dianne Reeves (Queen Elizabeth Hall. 13 November 2022. Live review by Alison Bentley) It was the end of the tour for US singer Dianne Reeves and there was a feeling of irrepressible […]
Jazz Nominees for the 2023 GRAMMYs
The GRAMMYs ceremony (the 65th) will take place on 5 February. Here are the nominees, first in the jazz categories, and then some jazz related names in other categories from a very […]
RYMDEN at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (2022 EFG LJF)
RYMDEN (Queen Elizabeth Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival, 12 November 2022. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) RYMDEN are Bugge Wesseltoft (piano), Dan Berglund (bass) and Magnus Öström (drums); it’s twenty-five years since Wesseltoft made his name with his […]
Heidi Vogel sings Sarah Vaughan (Jazz Café POSK, 26 November)
Vocalist/songwriter Heidi Vogel, together with musical director Ivo Neame, has prepared a very special evening of songs to celebrate Sarah Vaughan. It will premiere at Jazz Café POSK on Saturday 26 November […]
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid and Anthony Braxton New Quartet (2022 EFG LJF)
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid and Anthony Braxton New Quartet (Barbican, 13 November 2022 Review by Peter Slavid) It’s received wisdom that avant-garde jazz appeals only to a small audience. That was definitely not […]
Belgrade Jazz Festival 2022
Belgrade Jazz Festival (Dom Omladine Beograda, Belgrade, Serbia. 26-30 October 2022. Review and photos by John Watson) So many European festivals have lost funding this year, as political crisis piles on economic […]
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 9 (Jack O’Diamonds – Library of Congress field recordings 1934-1943)
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 9 (Jack O’Diamonds – Library of Congress field recordings 1934-1943) (MSESET9 – 6 CDs. Album review by Chris Parker) Disc 1: Mississippi River Blues Disc 2: Fort […]
Linda May Han Oh Quartet at Pizza Express Soho (2022 EFG LJF)
Linda May Han Oh Quartet (Pizza Express Soho. 12 November 2022. Review by Jon Turney) A slow string bass groove deep enough to sink into, embroidered from the drums, was an immediately […]
Mothers In Jazz (16): Airelle Besson
“Mothers In Jazz” is a new series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry […]
Jazz Voice at the Royal Festival Hall (2022 EFG LJF)
Jazz Voice (Royal Festival Hall. 11 November 2022. EFG LJF. Review by Lavender Sutton) Every year the London Jazz Festival’s opening gala: Jazz Voice at Royal Festival Hall sets the tone for […]
10 George Shearing Tracks I Can’t Do Without – By Nick Tomalin
As he looks forward to his “Shades of Shearing” show at Ronnie Scott’s on Sunday 27 November (link below), Nick Tomalin gives us the ten tracks by Battersea-born pianist George Shearing that […]
