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 […]
Birthday Wishes and Greetings for Norma Winstone at 80
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 […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021. 38. ‘All Good Things’ – Big Air, 2008.
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 […]
Helena Debono – new album ‘Right Here’
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 […]
Tim Richards and MusicGurus – ‘Beginning Jazz Piano’ (interactive course of lessons)
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 […]
‘Extraordinary Artists’ (Online Course from Marie-Anne and Georgia Mancio, begins 17 September)
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 […]
Steve Dyer – ‘Revision’ (new album released 16 September)
“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 […]
Pat Metheny’s ‘Sirabhorn’: an interview with the dedicatee
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 […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021. 37. ‘The Ass’ Song’, Annie Ross and the Tony Kinsey Quintet: Loguerhythms, 1962.
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 […]
Acoustic Triangle (20th Anniversary UK tour, starts 18 September)
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, […]
The Roaring 20s (Cadogan Hall, Saturday 25 September 2021)
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 […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021. 36. ‘Song and Dance’, Joe Lovano: Quartets – Live at the Village Vanguard, 1994.
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 […]
Remembering Charlie Watts. An interview from 2001 by Chris Parker
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 […]
Wendy Kirkland (‘Latin Lowdown Live’ tour, starts 4 September)
“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 […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021. 35. ‘India’, Gato Barbieri, ‘Chapter One: Latin America’, 1973
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 […]
