Peter Bacon reports: The improvisatory links are strong, so bringing jazz music together with flamenco dance feels like a very natural marriage, but one too that will strike sparks. In the Sadler’s […]
Flamenco meets jazz (Sadler’s Wells, 10 July)
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Roberto Fonseca and Joe Claussel at Gesu Cultural Centre (2019 MIJF)
Roberto Fonseca and Joe Claussel (Gesu Cultural Centre. 1 July 2019. Montreal International Jazz Festival. Review by Sebastian Scotney) “What you are hearing is natural. It is real,” said Roberto Fonseca at […]
Maximilian Hirning, bassist of German piano trio LBT (Ronnie Scott’s International Piano Trio Festival 3-7 August)
In this year of its 60th anniversary, Ronnie Scott’s will be presenting the sixth edition of its International Piano Trio Festival. Running from Saturday 3 to Wednesday 7 August there will be […]
B. D. Lenz (28-date trio tour of Europe incl. UK 26 June – 17 July)
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, […]
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: […]
