A regular contributor to All About Jazz and a very busy musician, guitarist B.D. Lenz is in the middle of his 10th anniversary tour of the UK. Mix the sophistication of jazz, […]
B. D. Lenz (28-date trio tour of Europe incl. UK 26 June – 17 July)
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Patricia Barber at Monument-National (2019 Montreal International Jazz Festival)
Patricia Barber (Monument-National, 30 June 2019. Montreal International Jazz Festival. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Howard Reich, that great music writer from Patricia Barber’s home city of Chicago once described her fine artistry […]
Marvin Stamm (special guest with The Forgotten Fairground, 606 Club, 25 July)
Over a long and illustrious career, trumpeter Marvin Stamm has played with many jazz icons including Stan Kenton and Frank Sinatra. He spoke to Laura Thorne about those greats, about his big […]
Soho Sounds: Jazz at the Boulevard Theatre (weekly from 6 November)
Peter Bacon reports: Pianist Alex Webb – he of The Copasetic Foundation and well-known for his work with vocalists – has masterminded a new, autumnal series of weekly late-night jazz sessions at the […]
ADVICE: Sound Reasoning Part 5 – leakage
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 […]
Miguel Gorodi Nonet – Apophenia
Miguel Gorodi Nonet – Apophenia (Ubuntu Music. UBU0021. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Trumpeter Miguel Gorodi has put together a biggish band of some of the most interesting musicians on the London […]
English jazz and the Somerset connection
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
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 […]
2019 Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize winner announced
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. […]
Guitar Summit (Kings Place, 18-21 July)
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 […]
Jazz Promotion Network Conference: ‘Stand Out’ (Glasgow, 20-21 June 2019)
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 […]
Polish Jazz London – a monthly series (4 July to 21 November 2019)
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
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. […]
Wendy Kirkland (second album, The Music’s On Me, released 20 July)
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
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 […]
