Jim Blomfield Trio – Strange Beauty (Every Way OK) (Pig Records PIG009 CD Review by Jon Turney) Bristol-based pianist Jim Blomfield, widely admired in his home city, isn’t as well-known elsewhere as he […]
Jazz on the streets at Coutances Phone snap: Richard Lee Jazz Sous les Pommiers – The 38th Coutances Jazz Festival (Coutances, France, 24 May – 1 June 2019. Review by Richard Lee) […]
London Vocal Project Photo: Karen Hatch The Many Voices of Eve is a much-welcomed collaboration between The London Vocal Project and The Printmakers, and will comprise a concert at Kings Place on […]
Peter Bacon reports: Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club turns 60 on 30 October 2019 and the line-up planned for its big birthday bash would be hard-pressed to squeeze into the Frith Street club. […]
Certaldo Alto Publicity photo from certaldo-info.com GMF Tuscany 2019 with the Scott Hamilton / Champian Fulton Quartet will be an intimate jazz festival and course in a magical and historic location. It will […]
Sons of Kemet XL Photo credit: Christian Bertrand Primavera Sound 2019 (30 May-1 June, Barcelona. Festival Round-Up by AJ Dehany) Primavera Sound festival is as sprawling and eclectic as ever in its […]
Veronika Morscher (centre) receiving the award from Bonn Mayor Ashok Sridharan (right) with Festival Director Peter Materna Photo credit: Heike Fischer/ JazzFest Bonn Sebastian writes: The 2019 Bonn Jazz Festival, in its […]
Oene van Geel Publicity picture The Dutch/Scots collaboration LoLanders plays a series of dates in the UK and the Netherlands this month. Rob Adams reports: Formed by Dutch violist Oene van Geel […]
Tower of Power at the Royal Albert Hall Drawing by Geoff Winston. © 2019. All Rights Reserved Tower of Power 50th Anniversary tour (Royal Albert Hall, 30 May 2019; Review and drawings […]
Christy Doran’s Sound Fountain Schaffhauser Jazz Festival (Kulturzentrum Kammgarn, Schaffhausen, Switzerland. 23-4 May 2019. Round-Up by Alison Bentley) This the third and final part of Alison Bentley’s report on Schaffhauser Jazz Festival […]
Chris Laurence at Lauderdale House Photo credit: Andrew Laurence Chris Laurence Quartet (Lauderdale House, 30 May 2019. Review by Lauren Bush) The gathering of regular attendees at Lauderdale House in North London […]
L-R: Jason Rebello, Tim Garland, Yuri Goloubev Manchester, 2019 Photo credit: Abby Hilton/mjf In our second round-up report from the 2019 Manchester Jazz Festival, Rob Adams writes about Tim Garland’s Weather Walker […]
Sylvie Courvoisier Trio iPhone snap by Alison Bentley Schaffhauser Jazz Festival, (Kulturzentrum Kammgarn, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, May 22-25 2019. Round-up by Alison Bentley) This is the second part of Alison Bentley’s three-part round-up […]
Len Aruliah – No Complications (Self-release/ CDBaby. CD Review by Lauren Bush) Canadian-British Len Aruliah is a well-versed alto and soprano saxophonist and composer who uses his cross-the-pond connections to collaborate with his favourite […]
Mélanie De Biasio Photo credit: Suzanne Schols/ Creative Commons Mélanie De Biasio (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 28 May 2019. Review by Peter Jones) With a completely new band since she last visited London […]
