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Nottingham-based vocalist Jeanie Barton (*) has a new, third album out entitled Moments of Clarity. She is about to bring her new concert programme celebrating Noel Coward and Cole Porter to The […]
Peter Bacon reports: The recipients of the 2019 Parliamentary Jazz Awards were announced last night. The Awards, organised by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (APPJAG), were presented at the PizzaExpress […]
Pianist, organist and composer Kit Downes has just released Dreamlife of Debris, his second album as leader on ECM Records. He spoke to Peter Bacon about the preceding musical journey and the churches […]
Jason Moran and The Bandwagon (Village Vanguard, NYC, 27 November 2019. Review by Mark Lewandowski) Thanksgiving week at the Village Vanguard has become to the jazz fan as much of a staple […]
Jazz Juniors Festival and Competition (Piec Art Acoustic Jazz Club and other venues, 27-30 November 2019. Report by Mary James) The 43rd Jazz Juniors Competition 2019 Kraków was won by Jakub Paulski […]
Charles Lloyd Quartet – Montreux Jazz Festival 1967 (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series 46) (The Montreux Jazz Label TCB 02462. CD review by Peter Bacon) Maybe it shouldn’t be so striking, but, somehow, […]
Chryssie Hynde & Valve Bone Woe Ensemble (Royal Festival Hall. EFG London Jazz Festival, Sunday 24 November 2019. Review by Tomasz Furmanek) This festival concert confirmed what I had heard in June at […]
Kyle Eastwood – Cinematic (Jazz Village. CD review by Rob Mallows) A jazz album of some of cinema’s classic soundtracks from Kyle Eastwood. There is a sort of divine inevitability that the […]
Steve Beresford and Mandhira de Saram at BOTH AND exhibition, Burley Fisher Books, 24 November 2019. Report and drawings by Geoff Winston As part of our BOTH AND exhibition, and serendipitously coinciding […]
Peter Bacon reports: The first names to be announced for the 2020 Love Supreme Jazz Festival, as usual at Glynde in East Sussex and next year over the weekend of Friday 3 […]
Led Bib (The Rio Cinema, 24 November 2019, EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Patrick Hadfield) A Sunday afternoon at the movies, as Led Bib premiered their latest project – providing the […]
Evan Parker at 75 (Bates Mill Blending Shed, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 24 November 2019. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This concert celebrated Evan Parker’s 75th birthday of last April and his long association […]
Jazzmeia Horn/Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – The Artistry of Jazzmeia Horn (Usher Hall, Edinburgh. 24 November 2019. Review by Mark McKergow) Jazz vocalist extraordinary Jazzmeia Horn raised the roof of Edinburgh’s Usher […]
Swingin’ with Strings (Cadogan Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival 24 November 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) This year’s London Jazz Festival may well have been the biggest and best to date. Let the […]
Bau.Haus.Klang (1st set – Michael Wollny, piano; Wolfgang Heisig, programmed piano; Émile Parisien, soprano sax; Leafcutter John, electronics; Max Stadtfeld, bass) (Barbican Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival, 24 November 2019.) Battleship Potemkin […]
