Singer and writer Nishla Smith is about to launch her debut album, Friends with Monsters (Whirlwind Recordings). She ” is a natural storyteller” and the album is “a set of inventive narratives […]
Esbe is a London-based singer, composer, producer, artist and multi-instrumentalist. She studied classical guitar at the Royal Academy of Music. Her background is North African, Middle Eastern, British and Jewish. She has […]
Guitarist Nicolas Meier is about to release a new, ambitious triple album, Magnificent, with his World Group, (violinist Richard Jones, bassist Kevin Glasgow and percussionist Demi Garcia Sabat). “The collection often suggests […]
Irish drummer and bandleader Kevin Brady has reinvented his acoustic trio as an electric quartet for a new album on Ubuntu Music, Plan B – with Seamus Blake, Dave Redmond and Bill […]
Birmingham-based composer Andrew Woodhead is about to perform the most ambitious piece you’ll hear this year. The album Pendulums – Music for Bellringers, Improvisers & Electronics was released in June, and the launch […]
A year and a half after its release in May 2020, John Law’s Congregation will be celebrating the launch of their new album CONFIGURATION next month at King’s Place. Feature by Jon […]
Fiona Ross’s fifth album Red Flags and High Heels will be launched at Pizza Express Dean Street on 6 October. She explains the background. Interview by Sebastian Scotney, LondonJazz News: There are […]
Bex Burch’s trio Vula Viel, with Jim Hart on drums and Ruth Goller on bass are shortly setting off on tour, starting in Brighton on 14 October, with subsequent gigs in Poole, at […]
Singer Helena Debono’s new album ‘Right Here’ is out right now. She talks to Andrew Cartmel. Before I met Helena Debono to chat about her new album, I did a little bit […]
Pianist and composer Tim Richards has been performing and composing for bands on the British jazz scene for well over 30 years. Parallel to the journey as a working musician has been […]
“It’s about the interrelationships between patterns”: South African saxophonist and bandleader Steve Dyer’s new album ‘Revision’ is released on 16 September. Interview by South African jazz writer Gwen Ansell. Ghana’s sankofa bird […]
Acoustic Triangle (the trio of bassist Malcolm Creese, saxophonist/bass clarinettist Tim Garland and pianist Gwilym Simcock) is about to embark on a 20th Anniversary tour. Feature by John Fordham. In June 2001, […]
On 25 September The Jazz Repertory Company will return to Cadogan Hall, London with The Roaring 20s, a programme originally devised by the much missed Keith Nichols, and featuring a dozen of […]
“A live performance to a live audience…that is what I’m looking forward to,” says Chesterfield-based pianist, singer, Hammond player Wendy Kirkland. She is about to head off on a tour, “Latin Lowdown […]
An hour of unrehearsed live interaction on a festival stage back in 2007 provides John Fordham with ‘a rejuvenating late-career bonus at the end of a sombre year for performing artists’. He […]
