Omar + QCBA (Live at The Jazz Café. Also recorded for future release as a live album. 29 May 2021. Review by Lavender Sutton) Camden Town on a Saturday night was an […]
Omar + QCBA – Live at the Jazz Café
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Ches Smith & We All Break – ‘Path of Seven Colors’
Ches Smith & We All Break: Path of Seven Colors Pyroclastic Records. Album Review by Tony Dudley-Evans There has always been a strong relationship between jazz and Latin and Caribbean rhythms. This […]
Programme announced for 2021 Inntöne Festival (Austria)
The International Inntöne Jazz Festival is one of Europe’s best and most imaginatively programmed boutique festivals. It is held at a pig farm in the Innviertel in Austria, the 250-year-old Buchmannhof near […]
David Beebee – ‘Planet B’
David Beebee – Planet B (Available from Bandcamp – link below, Album review by Alison Bentley) “There is no Planet B,” climate protesters remind us, but UK pianist David Beebee has created […]
Wilma Baan (new album ‘So Nice’ produced by Claire Martin)
So Nice is the debut album of Dutch vocalist Wilma Baan. It is also the very first release to be produced by the new ‘Soup to Nuts’ production company, jointly run by […]
Richard X Bennett – ‘RXB3’
Richard X Bennett – RXB3 (Ubuntu Music UBU0089 – Album review by Mark McKergow) Brooklyn-based pianist Richard X Bennett leads his new trio on a lively and engaging journey in this new […]
Nubya Garcia and Laura Jurd to feature at 2021 BBC Proms
The programme for the BBC Proms 2021 is announced today and the season programme is available online and from bookshops. The season runs from 30 July to 11 September. Booking will open […]
Sons of Kemet – ‘Black to The Future’
Sons of Kemet – Black to The Future (Impulse Records. Album review by Graham Spry) Shabaka Hutchings stays true to the traditional practise of artists on Impulse Records, such as Charles Mingus, […]
Somi (Single ‘Pata Pata’ from forthcoming album ‘Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba.’)
Vocalist Somi (Kakoma) was born in Illinois to Rwandan and Ugandan parents, writes Nicky Schrire. In her previous records and in her music at large, she has fully embraced her African heritage, […]
Liam Noble (Saturday afternoon livestreams on Twitch TV)
Liam Noble’s fortnightly livestream on Twitch TV on Saturday afternoons from his home has been one of the joys of the lockdown, writes Tony Dudley-Evans. He picks a different theme each week, […]
Ben Crosland (new album ‘Solway Stories’)
Bass guitarist/bandleader Ben Crosland’s new album Solway Stories, recorded in the lockdown window in September 2020, is ‘a very personal record ‘, ‘an homage to a beautiful border landscape, and to pivotal […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021 (21. ‘Flowers for Albert’. From David Murray, ‘Flowers for Albert’, 1976)
Number twenty-one of Jon Turney’s weekly selections (introduced HERE), is the first treatment of a theme that David Murray loves to revisit. The title track from David Murray’s first album as a […]
Germana Stella La Sorsa (new album ‘Vapour’ on 33 Jazz Records – for autumn release)
Italian singer, composer and lyricist Germana Stella La Sorsa moved to London in 2017, and quickly made an impact on the London scene with her Jazz in Cinema project. Tony Kofi has […]
Rebecca Vasmant – ‘With Love, From Glasgow’
Rebecca Vasmant – With Love, From Glasgow (REBREC001 LP review by Adam Sieff) There have been a number of records released recently celebrating the jazz scenes which are being redefined by young […]
10th Herts Jazz Festival 2021, 15-17 Oct. Programme Announced + Booking Open
The Programme is announced for the 2021 Herts Jazz Festival. The dates are 15 to 17 October. It will be at the South Mill Arts in Bishop’s Stortford. Headliners for the evening […]
