Telepathic Band – Electric Telepathy Vol. 1 album launch (Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, 10 September 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Album launch sets come in all shapes and sizes: sometimes they are a […]
Telepathic Band at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
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The Big Chris Barber Band at Cadogan Hall
The Big Chris Barber Band (Cadogan Hall, London, 13 September 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) When Bob Hunt, the band’s trombonist and musical director, came out on stage it was to emphasize that […]
John Pearce – Just Friends
John Pearce – Just Friends (JCP001. CD review by Mark McKergow) Bristol-based violinist John Pearce makes his CD debut with this delicious collection of jazz performances, standards brought to life by exciting […]
Trish Clowes’ eighth Emulsion festival (Vortex, 12 Oct)
Peter Bacon reports: The 2019 edition of Emulsion, saxophonist/composer Trish Clowes‘ one-day festival of genre-straddling music (her eighth), will take place in the Vortex Jazz Club, in Dalston, London, on Saturday 12 […]
Sam Rivers Trio featuring Cecil McBee and Norman Connors – Emanation
Sam Rivers Trio featuring Cecil McBee and Norman Connors – Emanation (NoBusiness Records NBCD 118. CD review by Brian Marley) When Sam Rivers signed to Impulse! at the tail end of the […]
Pigfoot – Pigfoot Shuffle launch at The Vortex
Pigfoot – Pigfoot Shuffle launch (The Vortex, 7 September 2019. Review by Richard Lee) I’d just gone along as a punter, and to be honest, Adrian Pallant’s liner notes to the new album launched […]
Bill Evans ft. WDR Big Band Cologne – The East End
Bill Evans ft. WDR Big Band Cologne – The East End (Jazzline Records. Album review by Rob Mallows) Each week, LondonJazz News reviewers receive an email with the latest album releases needing reviews. When I […]
ADVICE: Sound Reasoning Part 6 – preamps
Mark Wingfield is a mixing and mastering engineer at Heron Island Studio. He has three DownBeat Masterpiece albums under his belt, a Jazzwise Best Release Of The Year, and over 300 rave […]
Eric Lewis – Intents and Purposes: Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Improvisation
Eric Lewis – Intents and Purposes: Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Improvisation (Michigan University Press Hbk 265pp. Book review by Andy Hamilton) Intents and Purposes is named after a 1966 album by […]
Punkt Festival 2019, Norway – Part 2
Punkt Festival – Part 2 (Kristiansand, Norway, 5-7 September 2019. Round-Up by Martin Longley) It’s unusual to hear the Thurston Moore Group play instrumental music, but that’s what’s promised on their soon-coming […]
