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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Jazz Sanctuary is a monthly music event in South West London which brings together established and emerging artists from the UK jazz scene. Promoter/organiser Sarah Meyer talked to AJ Dehany about […]
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 […]
“As well as being a jazz musician I play classical music and pop. I love it all, so why not include it?” John Bungey interviews Manchester-based composer and bassist Joshua Cavanagh-Brierley, a […]
The 31st of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) sees an Ellington tune polished to a new lustre. The pianist and soprano saxophone player here were both immensely fertile artists. Yet something […]
The 30th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections finds a great Chicagoan injecting new life into an appropriate Jelly Roll Morton classic. The opening track on this wonderful LP is Henry Threadgill’s homage […]
In the latest of our series in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, Canadian guitarist Mike Rud (*) writes about […]
Dreams can come true. Ten years ago, Cheltenham-based saxophonist / vocalist / composer Kim Cypher and her husband (and drummer in her band) Mike, abandoned stable jobs as primary school Head of […]
On 20-22 August 2021, the Herne Bay Jazz and Swing Festival will take place on the beautiful east Kent coast. This fourth festival features their biggest lineup ever and includes some of […]
In the latest of our series in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, bassist Matt Ridley (*) writes about Czech […]
French pianist Gregory Ott’s “Parabole” (Jazzdor) is a modestly understated and deeply personal album. It offers a musical reinterpretation of Wim Wenders’ masterpiece, the 1988 film “Wings of Desire”. Ott has not […]
