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 […]
Kate Williams’ Four Plus Three meets Georgia Mancio – Finding Home (KW Jazz – kwjazz002. CD review by Adrian Pallant) “Secret, silent moments. Sweet, familiar voices. Colour into colour. Wonder into wonder. […]
The conference’s Musician in Residence Pete Moser Photo courtesy of Prof. George McKay Street Music (University of East Anglia – Arts and Humanities Research Council – Connected Communities. May 14-15, 2019, The […]
Lukas Mantel’s 6-tet “Vardah” 30th Schaffhauser Jazz Festival (Kulturzentrum Kammgarn, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, May 22-25 2019. Round-Up and iPhone snaps by Alison Bentley) This is the first part of Alison’s round-up of a […]
Shireen Francis Publicity photo Shireen Francis (Lauderdale House, 23 May 2019. Review by Brian Blain) Shireen Francis, who played, along with her fine band – Gunther Kurmayr (p) Josh Kemp (ts), Manuel Alvarez (b) […]
John Helliwell of Big Band Supertramp Photo Credit and © William Ellis Frank Griffith attended three very diverse concerts on the Friday (24 May) of the 2019 Manchester Jazz Festival. He writes: […]
Re-united this week at the Vortex: the Kirk Lightsey Trio with Steve Watts and Dave Wickins (Photo from 2017 EFG London Jazz Festival) Report by Sebastian: When the jazz community in this […]
Django Bates. Luleå, Sweden, 2013 Photo credit John Kelman. All Rights Reserved Stan Tracey won an Ivor Award for Jazz in 2012… John Surman was awarded one in 2017… and today at […]
Huw Warren Publicity photo Peter Bacon reports: Mix the current resident artists of Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama with its students and alumni and you get the AmserJazzTime Festival guest […]
Mark Dresser Seven – Ain’t Nothing But A Cyber Coup & You (Clean Feed Records. CD review by Dan Bergsagel) Sounding more like a group of outlaws than a jazz ensemble, the […]
Four plus Three plus John Williams Photo credit: Tatiana Gorilovsky Sebastian writes: The newest piece, maybe even the centrepiece at last Wednesday’s album launch of Georgia Mancio and Kate Willliams’ new album Finding […]
Laura Jurd’s Dinosaur Photo: Dave Stapleton Peter Bacon reports: The line-up of this year’s Herts Jazz Festival (the ninth) at the Rhodes Arts Complex in Bishop’s Stortford on the weekend of 27-29 […]
