A chance meeting online paid dividends for Beverley Beirne when top New York keyboards player/record producer Jason Miles – of Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Luther Vandross fame – offered to work […]
Beverley Beirne (new album ‘Dream Dancer’)
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Mike Gibbs – ‘Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes’
Mike Gibbs – Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes (Jazz in Britain JIB 24-S-CD. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The enterprising Jazz in Britain label specialises in releasing archive material often drawn […]
Deschanel Gordon Quartet at the 606 Club
Deschanel Gordon Quartet (606 Club. 26 June 2021. Review by Peter Jones) This eagerly-anticipated gig was massively over-subscribed, and it’s not difficult to see why. 23-year-old Londoner Deschanel Gordon has already scaled […]
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 4
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 4(MSESET4 – 6 CDs. Release Date 2 July 2021. Album Review by Chris Parker) Julius Daniels/Lil McClintock (1927–30) Texas Alexander Vol. 3 (1929–30) Peg Leg Howell (1926–27) Sanctified Jug […]
Noah Haidu ft. Buster Williams, Billy Hart – ‘Slowly: Song For Keith Jarrett’
Noah Haidu ft. Buster Williams, Billy Hart – Slowly: Song For Keith Jarrett (Sunnyside Records, SSC 1596 . Album review by Mike Collins) A piano trio album subtitled Song for Keith Jarrett […]
Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller – ‘In Harmony’ (rec. 2006 / 2007)
Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller – In Harmony (Resonance Records HCD-2060. Review by Leonard Weinreich) Mainly dependent on inspired improvisation, jazz music is ephemeral stuff. Unrecorded performances evaporate into the ether never to […]
Andy Panayi and the Blue Vanguard Trio (Club re-opening Night, Exeter)
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 […]
Matt Carmichael: Awards + Mintzer/ WDR Big Band news
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 and Elina Duni at Ronnie Scott’s
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 at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street (re-opening gig)
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’
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 […]
The Original UK Jazz Summer School – Cardiff residential course cancelled/ going online again…
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 2021
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’
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’
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. […]
