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, […]
Pete Oxley of The Spin, Oxford
They met in Southend..
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 […]
Tara Minton (new album ‘Two for the Road’, launch 27 Jan.)
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 […]
10 Tracks by Marty Paich I Can’t Do Without…by Charles Rees
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 […]
Emma Rawicz Quintet at Jazz Café POSK on Saturday 22 Jan 2022
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. […]
Most-reads on LJN, including those we have lost in 2021…
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 […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021, 52. ‘Couple in Spirit’. Keith and Julie Tippett, 1987
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 […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021. 51. ‘Big Jim Does the Tango for You’ – Bennie Wallace, Big Jim’s Tango, 1983
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 […]
Pete Churchill (Kenny Wheeler’s ‘Piece for Low Strings’, dedicated to Chris Laurence)
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 […]
New Edition of ‘The Jazz Podcast’ with Emile Parisien (album ‘Louise’ with sextet incl. Theo Croker)
Sebastian writes: This will not be news to regular listeners to The Jazz Podcast: for a few months, the programme, started in February 2017 by Rob Cope and Dan Farrant, and with […]
New Issue of Jazz Research Journal on ‘Diversity and Inclusion at Jazz Festivals’ – with Editorial as Podcast
Sebastian writes: A good friend of LJN, Dr. Nicolas Pillai, now at University College Dublin where he is Assistant Professor in Creative and Critical Practice, has been in touch about the latest […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021. 50. ‘Smiling Billy Suite’ – The Heath Brothers, Marching On, 1975
The 50th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections sees a great jazz family uniting to good effect. In the 1970s, hard times for old boppers, the three Heath brothers, Jimmy, Percy and younger […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021. 49. ‘Easy to Love’ – Lee Konitz and Red Mitchell, I Concentrate on You, 1974
The 49th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections sees a legend of cool inspired by Cole Porter. The great altoist Lee Konitz knew everything, but did tend to restrict himself to a fairly […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021. 48. ‘Slivadiv’ – Back Door, 1972.
The 48th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections is a blast of fresh air from the North. Back Door, who appeared out of the blue in the early ‘70s came at jazz rock […]
Iver Cardas (Winner of the 4th International Jarek Śmietana Jazz Guitar Competition)
Iver Cardas (Norway) has just won First Prize in the 4th International Jarek Śmietana Jazz Guitar Competition in Kraków. Born in a small town north of Oslo, music is in Cardas’s blood: […]
