Miroslav Vitous and Emil Viklický – Moravian Romance Recorded Live at the 2018 Brno Jazz Festival (Venus Record VHCD-1243. Album Review by Sebastian Scotney) Moravian Romance was released on the Japanese Venus […]
Birgit Minichmayr – As An Unperfect Actor. Nine Shakespeare Sonnets set to music by Bernd Lhotzky with Quadro Nuevo (ACT 9931-2. Album review by John Arnett) It is extraordinary to think that […]
Sebastian writes: Whereas there has been music coming from the 606 – the Chelsea club has been broadcasting a couple of live streams each week throughout the pandemic – last night, 20 […]
In our series in which musicians do a “deep dive” into the music of their inspirations, Nicky Schrire writes about ten favourite tracks by Norma Winstone. Norma Winstone is a storyteller. This […]
Joe Traina – Tip of the Hat (JTM 2020-1. Album review by Frank Griffith) Clarinettist Joe Traina‘s CD Tip of the Hat elucidates his full and liquid clarinet tone along with his […]
The first acts are announced for the 2021 Glasgow Jazz Festival. It will be a three-day digital festival from Friday 18 and Sunday 20 June, based at Saint Luke’s near the Gallowgate. […]
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Maria Rud – Where Rivers Meet: The Music of Dewey Redman and Albert Ayler (Recorded at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh on 30 April 2021. Streaming until August […]
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Maria Rud – Where Rivers Meet, Parts 1 + 3 : The Music of Ornette Coleman and Anthony Braxton (Recorded at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh on 30 April […]
In a Press Release issued today, Ronnie Scott’s announces: Reopening to audiences from Thursday 20 May 2021 Live (and only live-) stream Saturdays series in partnership with Dice FM Here is the […]
Conrad Cork, writes Andy Hamilton, was an alto-saxophonist, bassist, and Director of Jazz Studies in the Performing Arts Department at De Montfort University, Leicester. He was born in Birmingham, England, in 1940 […]
The ‘sound of surprise’, writes Mike Collins, is a description often attached to jazz since American writer Whitney Balliett used it in the early 60s. It sprang to mind as London Jazz […]
Alto saxophonist Lee Griffiths, originally from Northamptonshire, studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and is one of the organisers behind the Fizzle series of improvised and experimental music. He and Olivia Murphy will be […]
Love Longing Loss: At Home with Charles Lloyd During Isolation (Available to watch until 11 June 2021 – link below) (Film documented by Dorothy Darr. 62 minutes. Film review by Sebastian Scotney) […]
Nigel Price Organ Trio – Wes Reimagined (Ubuntu Music UBU0080. Album review by Denny Ilett) There’s a very good reason why the music of Wes Montgomery continues to inspire guitarists some 53 […]
German trombonist Nils Wogram writes in tribute to Curtis Fuller: Why is Curtis Fuller one of my ultimate heroes, writes Nils Wogram? Because he represents a way of playing the trombone which […]
