Pittsburgh-born bassist Richie Goods has a massive and varied experience and discography: the Headhunters, Lenny White, Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band, Milt Jackson, Russell Malone, Vincent Herring, the Manhattan […]
Vilnius Jazz Festival (15 to 17 October 2021) Report by Tony Dudley-Evans The Vilnius Jazz Festival has a strong focus on free jazz and improvised music, and has built a sizeable audience […]
Vimala Rowe (Spice of Life. Monday lunchtime All-Star Series. 18 October 2021. Review by Romy Summers) This was the third of the All-Star Monday lunchtime sessions at the Spice of Life (LJN […]
Singer and writer Nishla Smith is about to launch her debut album, Friends with Monsters (Whirlwind Recordings). She ” is a natural storyteller” and the album is “a set of inventive narratives […]
Esbe is a London-based singer, composer, producer, artist and multi-instrumentalist. She studied classical guitar at the Royal Academy of Music. Her background is North African, Middle Eastern, British and Jewish. She has […]
Saxophonist Tim Whitehead has always been an instigator of projects. The former member of Loose Tubes, of Ian Carr’s Nucleus, Morrissey Mullen, Jim Mullen’s Meantime… has often provided the energy to make […]
Matthew Stevens – Pittsburgh (Whirlwind Recordings. Album review by Rob Mallows) Matthew Stevens should fall off his bike more often. It’s not that I’m wishing any harm should come to the Canadian guitarist, […]
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (Impulse! Album review by John Bungey) Well, when time travel is invented, this gig at the Penthouse, Seattle, in 1965 will be near […]
Chris Maddock Quartet with special guest Dan Casimir – The Hunt (Ubuntu Records. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Chris Maddock is a young saxophonist who graduated from the jazz course at Birmingham […]
Carl Hyde, who has been an official photographer at Ronnie Scott’s since 2014, is today (18 October) launching a new book of photos, Jazz Noir, consisting of “a selection of images that […]
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series Set 5 1: Blind Lemon Jefferson 1926–29 2: Frank Stokes 1927–29 3: Blind Blake 1926–29 4: Big Bill Broonzy 1927–32 5: Mississippi Sheiks 1930 (Vol. 1) 6: Lonnie Johnson […]
Sebastian writes: The sad news has just reached us that saxophonist Willie Garnett passed away yesterday 15 October 2021. As one musician has just described him to me, “he was the nicest […]
Cassie Kinoshi, Elliot Galvin, Shabaka Hutchings, and Laura Jurd have been commissioned by the London Sinfonietta to write pieces which will be premiered at a “London Third Stream” concert at the Queen Elizabeth […]
Jazz is the sound of surprise, and the 606 Club’s programme has some interesting and appealing dates coming up in the next few weeks: Thursday 28 October: A Celebration of Christian Brewer‘s […]
Guitarist Nicolas Meier is about to release a new, ambitious triple album, Magnificent, with his World Group, (violinist Richard Jones, bassist Kevin Glasgow and percussionist Demi Garcia Sabat). “The collection often suggests […]
