Peter Bacon reports: The National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) has announced what it describes as “the most exciting development in its 54-year history”. It’s the NYJO Jazz Exchange, a two-year national project encouraging […]
Having gathered around him some of today’s finest young players based in Europe and the US, the London-based composer and tenor saxophonist Alex Merritt has spent the past week touring some of […]
Judy Niemack – Blue Nights; In The Sundance (Blujazz, 2007; 2009. Review by Frank Griffith) This brace of CDs from a decade back by jazz vocalist Judy Niemack (The Pheasantry, 4 & 5 July) forms […]
Nigel Slee, Creative Director at Jazz North, reports from Huddersfield on the seventh Jazz North Education Conference (declaration of interest: Nigel organised it) : The seventh Jazz North Education Conference took place […]
George Cables (with Essiet Essiet and Victor Lewis) – I’m All Smiles (HighNote Records HCD 7322. CD Review by Sebastian Scotney) It is probably wrong to be completely swayed by the positive […]
Thurston Moore Ensemble (Cafe Oto, 13 June 2019. Review and drawings by Geoff Winston) Thurston Moore treads an intriguing tightrope, balancing carefully measured, choreographed steps with an immersive intensity that threatens to […]
Wes Montgomery – Back on Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings (Resonance Recordings. HCD2036. CD Review by Mike Rud*) Wes Montgomery’s music swings… and shines, bounces, delights and comforts. His is a […]
For a jazz festival which presents strong players in spectacular settings, Südtirol is hard to beat. Alison Bentley previews the 2019 festival: Every year, the Südtirol Jazz Festival brings musicians from different […]
Apollo and Artvark – Collide and Merge (Oink Records. CD review by Rob Adams) It was, if I remember correctly, the estimable 29th Street Saxophone Quartet who expressed a wish to have […]
Trio M (The Stone, New York, 12 June 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) It is not easy to maintain a trio of in-demand power players when they are split across coasts, and have their hands full of projects. So this outing by […]
This feature/interview with Alex Roth written by Tomasz Furmanek was first published in Polish in the June issue of Jazz Forum magazine. Tomasz has kindly provided LondonJazz News with this English translation: […]
Frank Griffith Quartet (Boater’s Inn, Kingston, Surrey, 9 June 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) Our Friend from the North, the now-bearded tenorist Frank Griffith and sometime London Jazz News reviewer who is based […]
Peter Bacon reports: Say the words “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” and most of us recall the classic Bert Stern film documenting the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival on Rhode Island. But the […]
We don’t often post straight press releases, but Peter Bacon thought you might like this one from Rhino/Warner Records: “Miles Davis shocked the music world in 1985 when he left Columbia Records […]
The Edinburgh Fringe programme is out. There is a decent smattering of jazz alongside all the comedy and other stuff. We asked three of our writers for their tips: Mark McKergow Big […]
