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Rob Mallows, for LondonJazz News, met up with the members of Spirit Fingers at the start of a mini-heatwave in London. The music later that night at Pizza Express Holborn matched the weather! The band […]
Wood Street Jazz Festival (Wood Street Village, Surrey, 21 July 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) Picture this quintessentially English scene. A marquee is set up on an ample village green in the heart […]
Jazz Leeds Festival 2019 (Various venues, 18-21 July 2019. Photographs and report by William Ellis) I’ve just spent the weekend at the Jazz Leeds Festival – now in its 3rd year with […]
Peter Bacon reports: Vocalist Georgia Mancio has announced her third Hang, the mini-festival she organises, and in which she collaborates with various musicians in different aggregates. The 2019 edition will be held […]
Serena Fisseau, Vincent Peirani – So Quiet (ACT. 9884-2. CD Review by Alison Bentley) In the liner notes to So Quiet, French-Indonesian singer Serena Fisseau and French accordion-player Vincent Peirani “invite us […]
Michael J Bolton – Earthrise (Market Square Records. CD review by Rob Mallows) With the anniversary of the moon landing upon us, it’s not surprising jazz musicians – like other artists – […]
Peter Bacon reports: This press release received this evening: “Today, more than 5000 people turned out for the world-famous Jazz Club Ronnie Scott’s 60th anniversary street party, which took place on Frith […]
Burt Bacharach (Eventim Apollo. 17 July 2019. Review by Andrew Cartmel) Over 90 years old, Burt Bacharach casually sauntered on stage and sat at the piano and began to conjure chords. What […]
Daryl Sherman (The Pheasantry, 17 July 2019. Review by Lauren Bush) Daryl Sherman at the Pheasantry was met by an audience of friends and fans alike. It had been a while since […]
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 […]
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 (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 […]
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 (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 (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 […]
