Norma Winstone, one of the greatest jazz singers, celebrates her 80th birthday today, 23 September 2021. We invited friends, colleagues and fans to wish her a very happy birthday. Christine Allen: Norma […]
The 38th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections is a notable transatlantic collaboration. Big Air were a brilliant UK-US collaboration featuring trumpeter Chris Batchelor and multi-reeds player Steve Buckley, two of the horn […]
Singer-songwriter Georgia Mancio and art historian Marie-Anne Mancio explore the unexpected connections between artists, musicians and cultural innovators in an interactive online course. ‘Extraordinary Artists’ begins this Friday 17 September. Feature by […]
Sirabhorn, one of the tunes on the new Pat Metheny album, Side Eye V1.IV, is dedicated to – and named after – a student of Metheny’s from his days at Berklee in the mid-1970s. The […]
The 37th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features an uncommonly successful collaboration between a poet and a singer. Advice to jazz singers: Find a decent poet who is interested in songwriting. Get […]
The 36th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features a thrilling encounter between two great horn players. Joe Lovano’s long tenure with Blue Note mostly produced studio recordings, but they had to do […]
Chris Parker writes: When Charlie Watts appeared with his Tentet at Ronnie Scott’s in June 2001, I interviewed him on 5 April of that year so that he could give the readers […]
The 35th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features a great Argentinian saxophonist enjoying a trip back home. Chapter One indicates the first of a series made for Impulse, after Gato Barbieri (1932 […]
The 34th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features a powerful trio who breathe as one. Yes, it’s Tommy Flanagan, so you get impeccable, beautifully articulated piano playing. But this is also about […]
Annabel Williams is THE vocal coach. She has had the role for nearly a decade at both X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent. She has worked with over two hundred chart-topping artists. […]
FONT, the Festival of New Trumpet Music, was co-founded by Dave Douglas and the late Roy Campbell Jr. in 2003. As another Festival approaches, Dave Douglas explains in an email interview the […]
The 33rd of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) is all about the horns. Among early releases from the World Saxophone Quartet, this live set stands out, as live sets often do. […]
Icelandic guitarist Mikael Máni’s second album Nostalgia Machine is a crossover work of confidently understated melodic refinement. Feature/ Interview by AJ Dehany: The text accompanying Mikael Máni’s new album says that in […]
The 32nd of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) impresses with drumming of cherishable ferocity. I loved the albums Jack DeJohnette made as leader in the late 1970s and early ’80s. They […]
New Zealand pianist Ben Wilcock has added a new ingredient to his music. His latest album, The River Tethys is inspired by science-fiction and includes standards and even an Irish slip jig […]
