Alice Leggett is a Cardiff-born and London-based saxophonist and composer. Graduating from Trinity in 2017, she’s already made her mark on London’s jazz landscape as an integral part of Calum Gourlay’s monthly […]
Saxophonist, improviser and composer Lara Jones is a member of award-winning trio J Frisco and quartet Beyond Albedo. Born in rural Somerset, she studied in Leeds and is now based in London. […]
Guitarist, composer and educator Mike Rud won a Juno award in 2014 for his album Notes from Montreal.Mike has a new two guitars/bass/drums album out: Salome’s Dance – The Mike Rud Trio […]
Composer, sax and flute player, and record label founder Kevin Figes talks to us about the music and people who helped shape him and the ways he’s getting creative in lockdown… First […]
Composer, guitarist and current BBC New Generation artist Rob Luft recently released his second album, Life Is The Dancer. We catch up with him about releasing an album under lockdown, learning new […]
New York-born, California-based trumpeter and film composer Mark Isham has done the scores for over 400 movies and TV shows. He is involved, alongside Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and the UK’s Jive […]
Guitarist Nigel Price is normally one of the busiest musicians on the UK scene. Which made us particularly interested to read his lockdown Q&A… First album you purchased as a “jazz musician”? […]
Michael S. Klein, of the Singers Night community, pays tribute to a stalwart supporter of jazz, especially women singers: So sad to hear of the passing of one of the most ardent supporters […]
Composer and drummer Vassilis Podaras (aka Billy Pod) made the decision to move from his home country of Greece to London a couple of months ago… just in time for the lockdown. […]
Dominic Williams reflects on Jon Turney’s entertaining piece on “Missing the Sound of Surprise” and on how it set him off thinking in several directions about live music, audience involvement, and discovering […]
Sebastian writes: In 2005, Digby Fairweather introduced me to a quite remarkable person. Sue Davies, who passed away peacefully from cancer on 18 April 2020, four days after her 87th birthday, had […]
Nick Lea, who runs the Jazzviews.net website, is originally from South Wales and moved to Cumbria with his wife and children 22 years ago. Jazz Views started as an email newsletter in […]
Sebastian’s regular “London Column” in the German magazine JAZZTHETIK for May/June (*) is a brief profile of Pat Pascal, marking the fifth anniversary of jazznewblood. It takes a very special person to […]
Malcolm Mills’ label The Last Music Company is releasing two albums on 24 April, a vinyl edition of ‘The First Cut’ from 1976 by Don Weller’s Major Surgery, and ‘Another Kind of […]
Guildhall graduate Ben Comeau is a pianist, organist, accordionist and composer, active in jazz, classical and contemporary music. He talks to us from lockdown about his varied music influences, favourite Mahler symphonies, […]
