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JAZZx Festival, Timisoara, Romania Photographs and commentary by John Watson I find the music of Shakti so captivating that concentrating on photographing the group in concert might be considered the biggest challenge […]
JAZZx Festival (Timisoara, Romania, 28 June – 2 July. Review and photos by John Watson) “We Jazz Together” – that was the theme of the JAZZx Festival, held in the beautiful Romanian […]
Gaye Su Akyol – Anadolu Ejderi(Glitterbeat Records – GBCD 137 Review by Graham Spry) Francesco Martinelli’s recent accounts on this site of the 32nd Akbank Jazz Festival in Istanbul showed the Turkish jazz […]
It’s beginning to feel Not Quite Christmas. Rob Adams slicks back his hair and turns up his collar to preview the Jive Aces’ new show, featuring a host of special guests. The […]
The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire jazz department’s 85th birthday gift to one of its most esteemed Fellows, Michael Gibbs, takes the form of a special concert on Thursday 1 December at the conservatoire’s […]
After two online/live hybrid years, the Cambridge Jazz Festival is back in full in-person mode. Preview by Izzy Blankfield: Musical connections are at the centre of this year’s Cambridge Jazz Festival, which […]
PizzaExpress offers wide range of jazz acts from around the world and across the days of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2022. Rob Adams previews: The “baddest vocal cats on the planet,” […]
Yellowjackets – Parallel Motion(Mack Avenue MAC1196. Album review by Peter Bacon) As a descriptor the label “jazz fusion band – it appears in the Yellowjackets’ Wikipedia entry – has always struck me as […]
Julia Hülsmann Quartet – The Next Door(ECM Records. Review by Graham Spry) Since the release of her remarkable debut album, The End of a Summer, on ECM Records in 2008, a new […]
There are quiet heroes. Mike Westbrook is one of them. Since the early 1970s, the English pianist, composer and horn player has been offering elegant, rich and intelligent music that is off […]
Kurt Elling and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra are back together with a new collaboration – they are building an Apparition Bridge. Rob Adams reports: Works by the late Esbjorn Svennson, Danish bassist […]
An hour of unrehearsed live interaction on a festival stage back in 2007 provides John Fordham with ‘a rejuvenating late-career bonus at the end of a sombre year for performing artists’. He […]
The unfailingly creative pianist and composer Keith Tippett, who died last Summer, worked in a remarkable range of styles and settings over 50 years of music-making. So the idea of an event […]
Saadet Türköz & Beat Keller – We Are Strong(Chinabot label, available on download and cassette. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Saadet Türköz is the daughter of Kazakh parents who were expelled from the East […]
Jazz musicians Cassie Kinoshi, Soweto Kinch, Yazz Ahmed and Tim Garland are among composers each receiving Paul Hamlyn awards of £25,000 with no strings attached. Peter Bacon reports: The Paul Hamlyn Foundation […]
