Georgia Mancio and Alan Broadbent – Quiet Is The Star (Roomspin Records. Album review by Denny Ilett) That glorious body of 20th Century musical work known as The Great American Songbook has […]
Neil Ardley – Kaleidoscope of Rainbows – Live ‘75 (Jazz in Britain JIB-21-S-CD/JIB-21-S-DL. Album Review by Jon Turney) Neil Ardley, active in UK jazz mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, left a […]
Stefanos Tsourelis Trio – The Wanderer (Self-release*. CD Review by Alison Bentley) Oud, guitar, jazz, and Greek and Turkish music – Stefanos Tsourelis describes himself as “…a musical wanderer, travelling to different […]
A central figure in UK and European jazz, Mike Westbrook, is 85 today, 21 March 2021. We (+) invited friends, colleagues and fans to wish him a very happy birthday. Alessandro Achilli: […]
Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen – Live Recordings 2019-2020 (We Jazz Records WJCD32. Album Review by Adam Sieff) Two’s company, especially when it comes to saxophonists and drummers. Just listen to Binker […]
With his new album, “Afrofuturism”, Kansas City-born alto saxophonist Logan Richardson has started to achieve a number of long-held ambitions. He describes his processes, methods and objectives to Martin Longley: Right at […]
Jeff Colella – Love Music and it will love you back: Essays on Music (Mouthpiece Music. 118pp. e-book review by John Arnett) How to distil the essence of music and music making, […]
jazzahead! has just announced a new co-operation arrangement with the UNESCO-led International Jazz Day for this year’s digital edition. German Minister Monika Grütters and Dee Dee Bridgewater are announced as speakers for […]
Lionel Loueke (Unterfahrt Munich, 13 March 2021. Live review by Ralf Dombrowski) Review of a live concert at Unterfahrt. English version (*) first, then Ralf Dombrowski’s original German Tours these days aren’t […]
At the 2021 Grammys held on 14 March in LA, jazz and jazz-related winners included: Chick Corea (two), Maria Schneider (two), Kurt Elling/Danilo Perez, Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, […]
Adrian Younge – The American Negro (Jazz Is Dead Records – Album Review by Jane Mann) Californian lawyer-turned-musician Adrian Younge is a composer, recording engineer and producer who adores classic soul music. […]
Joachim Kühn – Touch the Light (ACT 9766-2. Album Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Put the words ‘music’ and ‘Ibiza’ in the same sentence and many people will visualise either superstar DJs pumping […]
Kurt Edelhagen & His Orchestra – 100. The Unreleased WDR Jazz Recordings 1957-1974 (Jazzline Classics D 77091. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This 3-CD box set of unreleased recordings by the Kurt […]
The eleventh of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), a memorable excursion into Afro-American history. Clifford Thornton, multi-instrumentalist, composer, radical intellectual, led the final release credited to the co-operative Jazz Composers’ Orchestra, […]
Lorne Lofsky – This Song Is New (Modica Music. Album review by Denny Ilett) Canadian Lorne Lofsky (b.1954) is a name that guitarists of all persuasions, over the last four decades, have […]
