Andy Panayi and the Blue Vanguard Trio(Blue Vanguard Jazz Club, Exeter. Live review by Martin Sawer) St Matthew’s Hall in the ancient port town of Topsham, downriver from Exeter, is the new […]
Saxophonist Matt Carmichael, aged 22, and graduating from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland this summer, has been winning a host of awards. It is also announced from Cologne that Bob Mintzer will […]
Rob Luft, Elina Duni and Fred Thomas (Ronnie Scott’s. 22 June 2021. Review by Peter Jones) It’s not often you emerge from Ronnie Scott’s at the end of an evening gig to […]
Liane Carroll and Ian Shaw (Pizza Express Dean Street. 21 June 2021 – re-opening gig. Review by Lavender Sutton) It’s been more than a year since performers and a live audience have […]
Charles Owens Trio – 10 Years (La Reserve Records. Album review by Adam Sieff) Tenor saxophonist Charles Owens (born 1972, and not to be confused with the much older saxophonist and former […]
Sebastian writes: One could sense the frustration and disappointment in Buster Birch’s voice today… Buster is Director of the Original UK Jazz Summer School had been hoping to hold this year’s course […]
Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige, Fri 25 June–Sun 4 July 2021 Preview by Alison Bentley It’s reassuring to know that jazz festivals are happening, even if some of us aren’t allowed to travel […]
John Hart – Checkmate (SteepleChase SCCD 31910. CD review by Mark McKergow) Guitarist John Hart teams up with baritone sax legend Gary Smulyan for this quartet date. The music is confidently calm and laid back, with a […]
Aki Rissanen – Divided Horizon (Edition Records EDN1177. Album review by Jon Turney) This solo keyboard offering from a leading light of Finnish, and indeed European, jazz is a splendid hybrid creation. […]
Ed Jones / Emil Karlsen – From Where Light Falls (FMR Records. Album Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) One feature of the contemporary jazz and improvised music scenes is that many players move […]
Vortex Online will premiere two short films under the title “Man of Words and Music – trumpeter and poet Shake Keane” next Tuesday, National Windrush Day. The full text of the press […]
Flat Earth Society Orchestra Boggamasta III (Igloo Records. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Flat Earth Society Orchestra, “the flagship of slightly deranged Belgian jazz” as they call themselves, is a big band that […]
Sebastian looks forward to Ongemang – Exploring the Spaces in Between. This is a premiere performance at Cafe OTO on 8 July, with Kit Downes, Lauren Kinsella and Tom Challenger, and is […]
Crouch End Festival Chorus will be performing Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert in a concert at Alexandra Palace on Saturday 17 July. In this preview feature, Russell Davies tells the story of how […]
Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and Bill Laswell, Sacred Ceremonies (3CDs) / TUM Box 003 Wadada Leo Smith, Trumpet (3CDs) / TUM Box 002 Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and […]
