Vocalist Louise Balkwill‘s debut album First Class is released today, 11 February 2022. She has joined forces with a 12-piece ensemble to bring together influences ranging from New Orleans swing to bebop […]
A new live album “with a spur-of-the-moment vibe” from Omar, Quentin Collins, Brandon Allen, Ross Stanley Live At Last is released today. Feature by Lavender Sutton. In May 2021, just after the […]
Bassist Ruth Goller completely defied expectations in July 2021 with her first album as leader, Skylla. Her trio with Lauren Kinsella and Alice Grant (with Nell Greco on two concerts) will be […]
In the latest of our series in which musicians write about their sources of inspiration, the pianist, composer, and philosopher Steve Tromans writes about his long-term admiration for, and association with, the […]
Oxford jazz club The Spin was due to celebrate its 21st birthday in May 2020 when everything was cancelled… “I questioned whether I should carry on on my own,” says Pete Oxley, […]
Thursday 3 February will see the London album launch of Adorna (Ulysses Arts) at St Martin in the Fields. The concert and the new album bring together the atmospheric Gregorian plainchant of […]
Sebastian writes: This is one of the more improbable pictures we have published. Two figures from the opposite ends of UK jazz. I asked Digby Fairweather to tell the story of what […]
As his seventh album The Long Run is released on Ubuntu Music, Israeli flautist Mattan Klein continues his ongoing exploration and celebration of Israeli and Brazilian jazz sounds. Profile feature by Nicky […]
Australian harpist Tara Minton’s new album, “Two for the Road” (Jazzizit) is the most jazz-inspired of the three she has made. Her companion for this road is bassist Ed Babar, and the […]
In our growing series in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, saxophonist, pianist, composer & arranger Charles Rees looks at the […]
Saxophonist/composer Emma Rawicz, originally from Devon, and currently an undergraduate at the Royal Academy of Music, is already making waves on the London scene. Her debut album “Incantation” will be released this spring. […]
Sebastian writes: LondonJazz News, the site, our social media feeds and our Wednesday morning newsletter only make a difference if what we produce is actually read, so I have gone through an […]
The last(*) of Jon Turney’s weekly selections highlights a creative partnership of the first order. How to finish this series? The first of these pieces – back when 2021 felt like it […]
The 51st of Jon Turney’s weekly selections finds an undersung tenor player reaching for the heights. There are any number of great tenor saxophone players who never quite achieve the recognition they […]
Chris Laurence’s album, Kenny Wheeler: Some Gnu Ones, was recently released on the Jazz in Britain label. The realisation of the composition ‘Piece for Double Bass and Low Strings’ for the album […]
