Sebastian’s regular London Column appears today in the July-August issue of the German magazine JAZZTHETIK (available throughout the German-speaking world). Here is the new column in English on the theme of…Somerset: Question: […]
Larry Fuller – Overjoyed (Capri 74155-2. CD review by Peter Vacher) American pianist Larry Fuller attracted early attention after acting as accompanist and MD to the singer Ernestine Anderson for six years […]
Peter Bacon reports: The Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize has its ninth recipient: saxophonist and composer Alexander Bone. The Royal Academy of Music and Edition Records are the joint promoters of this annual award. […]
The International Guitar Foundation’s four-day Guitar Summit at Kings Place covers the full range of fret activity, from classical to sophisticated pop, taking in lute music, jazz and flamenco along the way. Rob […]
The Jazz Promotion network exists in order to “advance and support professional development, information exchange and partnership opportunities for the UK & Irish jazz industry, artists and audiences”. The network has just […]
B Side Events are bringing to London the best Polish contemporary/avant garde jazz by some of the most interesting and highly acclaimed artists to come out of Poland in recent years. Tomasz […]
Avishai Cohen – Arvoles (Rough Trade. 0190296901881. Review by Dick Hovenga*) Arvoles brings bassist Avishai Cohen back to jazz after an excursion into pop with 1970, the album he released last year. […]
It’s “both a consolidation of the first album and something a bit different”. Pianist, singer and lyricist Wendy Kirkland tells Rob Adams about her new album, The Music’s On Me, and why […]
Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella & Eivind Aarset – Lost River (ECM 774 5607. CD review by Peter Bacon) On What Floats Beneath (track three on this disc released at the end of […]
Zoe Francis with Jim Mullen and Ross Stanley – Blue Town (Zoe Francis Records. CD Review by Brian Blain) No one makes a fortune accompanying UK jazz singers, so the fact that […]
