OK:KO – Liesu (WeJazz Records. Album Review by Peter Slavid The jazz scene in Finland is a particularly interesting one at the moment. It has links to the local folk music, and […]
OK:KO – ‘Liesu’
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Dave Douglas: ‘Secular Psalms’
Dave Douglas: Secular Psalms (Greenleaf CD Gre-CD-1090. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This album consists of a suite to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the beginnings of the work on the Ghent […]
Sheila Jordan/ Cameron Brown + Didi Kern/Rudi Fischerlehner at Porgy & Bess (Vienna)
Didi Kern/Rudi Fischerlehner, Strenge Kammer stage Sheila Jordan & Cameron Brown (main stage) Didi Kern/Rudi Fischerlehner, Strenge Kammer stage (Porgy & Bess, Vienna. 6 April 2022. Double Review and phone snaps by […]
The Oxley-Meier Guitar Project at The 606 (27 April)
The band co-led by guitarist Pete Oxley from the UK and Nicolas Meier, originally from Switzerland, is on a tour of France and the UK; their London date is at the 606 […]
Marking the Mingus Centenary on BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 has kindly sent out a press release amalgamating the station’s three programmes to mark the Mingus centenary over the Easter weekend, a few days ahead of the day itself, […]
Rewire Festival 2022 (Netherlands)
Rewire Festival (Amare, The Hague, Netherlands, 7-10 April 2022. Festival Round-Up by AJ Dehany) Rewire is an intersection of the determinedly intellectual and the robustly physical that rewards ambition. In its 11th […]
Ten Sonny Rollins Tracks I Can’t Live Without…by Liam Noble
In LJN’s ‘Ten Tracks I Can’t Do Without’ series, where jazz musicians write about their inspirations, Liam Noble writes about Sonny Rollins: Liam Noble writes: You can’t chose your family, nor the […]
Riga Jazz Stage 2022 (Latvia)
Riga Jazz Stage 2022 (Splendid Palace, Riga, Latvia. 7-9 April 2022. Festival/ Competition Report by Martin Longley) Riga Jazz Stage is usually an annual event, but this edition marked its reappearance following […]
“We have already seen several clubs close their doors permanently.” Letter from Nigel Price and 78 other signatories to Nadine Dorries MP
“ “We have already seen several clubs close their doors permanently and the future of dozens of others is now hanging by a thread. We cannot allow this vital part of our […]
John Zorn’s ‘The Bagatelles’ at City University
John Zorn’s The Bagatelles (Performance Space, City, University of London. 11 April 2022. Review and top photo by Peter Slavid) The name of John Zorn tends to elicit extreme reactions from […]
Koki Nakano (Stone Nest, 22 April)
“I always have a habit of imagining movement when I compose,” Japanese composer and pianist Koki Nakano, based in France will be performing at Stone Nest in Shaftesbury Avenue, to mark the forthcoming […]
Germana Stella La Sorsa (‘Vapour’ Album Launch, Vortex, 30 April)
Germana Stella La Sorsa refers to herself as a jazz singer and storyteller. With her debut album Vapour, released on the 33Jazz Label, she explores the crossroads of many musical components, […]
Alicja Śmietana: Jazz Suites by Jarek Śmietana (Jazz Cafe POSK, 23 April)
Violinist/composer/arranger Alicja Śmietana has prepared a very special concert programme to celebrate the life and music of her late father, one of the legends of Polish jazz, guitarist Jarek Śmietana (1951-2013). With […]
Sophia Domancich – ‘le grand jour’
Sophia Domancich – le grand jour(Peewee!, PW100. Album review by Mike Collins) French pianist Sophia Domancich (b.1957) has pursued an open-minded and exploratory path throughout her career with collaborations ranging from the […]
The Trackers ft. Gary Husband & Alf Terje Hana – ‘Vaudeville 8:45’
The Trackers ft. Gary Husband & Alf Terje Hana – Vaudeville 8:45(Abstract Logix Records. Album review by Rob Mallows) Gary Husband and who? I asked. Drum and keyboard polymath Husband’s music is familiar ground […]
