Frowny Frown (The Stone, New York, 16 July 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Halfway through the second piece I nearly started crying. I had accepted that – however well produced – no […]
Frowny Frown at The Stone, New York
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Laurence Hobgood – tesseterra
Laurence Hobgood – tesseterra (Ubuntu Music UBU0019. CD review by Mike Collins) Laurence Hobgood may be best known to many people for his nearly 20-year collaboration with Kurt Elling. His playing, arranging […]
Spanish Fly at Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn
Spanish Fly (Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn, 14 July 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) I hold these truths to be self-evident: Spanish Fly are 30 years old. Spanish Fly were beyond genre before […]
Chrissie Hynde – a new jazzy direction?
The icon of rock and pop music announced some time ago that she was working on a jazz cover album together with a mysterious The Valve Bone Woe Ensemble. Then, at the […]
Van Morrison at the Roundhouse
Van Morrison (Roundhouse – 7 July 2019, second night of 2-night residency. Review and drawing by Geoff Winston) Van Morrison pitched it just right on his second night at the Roundhouse. He […]
Mark Turner Meets Gary Foster
Mark Turner Meets Gary Foster (Capri Records 74156-2. 2 CDs or LPs. Review by Sebastian Scotney) What a remarkable album. There has been a danger that in the process of researching it […]
Laura Jurd – Stepping Back, Jumping In
Laura Jurd – Stepping Back, Jumping In (Edition. EDN1131. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Laura Jurd‘s new CD is a rich, eclectic mix of styles. Working with collaborators new and old – Jurd’s […]
R.I.P. Dave Wickins
Sebastian Scotney reports: The much-admired drummer and educator Dave Wickins passed away last night. We published appreciations of Dave from Liam Noble, Kirk Lightsey, Steve Watts, Simon Purcell and Buster Birch as […]
Alan Barnes – + Eleven
Alan Barnes – + Eleven (Woodville Records WVCD151 – CD review by Mark McKergow) Reeds maestro Alan Barnes celebrates his 60th birthday in vintage style with this collection of tunes from his […]
Christine and Ingrid Jensen and the Whirlwind Orchestra to tour England and Ireland in November
Sebastian writes: Saxophonist/composer Christine Jensen and her elder sister, trumpeter/bandleader Ingrid grew up in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, a town with a tradition of concert bands going back to the 1870s, and […]
