Buster Birch seems to be turning into one of the busiest jazz educators on the planet. He has as a new series of jazz guides and answered a few questions from Peter […]
Buster Birch (New series: Beginner Jazz Soloing)
Spirit Fingers – Interview plus review (Ronnie Scott’s 25 July, Hampstead 26/27 July)
Rob Mallows, for LondonJazz News, met up with the members of Spirit Fingers at the start of a mini-heatwave in London. The music later that night at Pizza Express Holborn matched the weather! The band […]
Brad Shepik (UK trio dates with Calum Gourlay & James Maddren, 9-12 August)
He works incredibly hard, leaps into any situation he likes the sound of, has played in the bands of Dave Douglas and Paul Motian, and is making a rare visit to the […]
Chrissie Hynde – a new jazzy direction?
The icon of rock and pop music announced some time ago that she was working on a jazz cover album together with a mysterious The Valve Bone Woe Ensemble. Then, at the […]
Scottish harpist Karen Marshalsay (new CD The Road to Kennacraig)
Scottish harper Karen Marshalsay releases The Road to Kennacraig, an album of traditional Scottish music and her own tunes written in traditional forms, on Monday 15 July. This might seem an odd […]
Clark Tracey and Herts Jazz Festival (27-29 September)
Under the leadership of drummer Clark Tracey, Herts Jazz has become one of the strongest in the British, volunteer-run jazz club circuit. Tracey spoke to John Fordham about how the club developed […]
A Lesson With Asaf Sirkis
“Singing is an inside-out learning process. It’s giving a voice to something that is already inside of you. In the 25 years I’ve been teaching. I’ve never seen two students use the […]
Duchess – jazz vocal trio (European tour, 12-20 July)
What does one call the combination of three New York-based vocalists, each possessing dazzling musicianship, impeccable taste and biting wit? The answer is: Duchess. With a penchant for hard-swinging and harmony-filled music, […]
Maximilian Hirning, bassist of German piano trio LBT (Ronnie Scott’s International Piano Trio Festival 3-7 August)
In this year of its 60th anniversary, Ronnie Scott’s will be presenting the sixth edition of its International Piano Trio Festival. Running from Saturday 3 to Wednesday 7 August there will be […]
B. D. Lenz (28-date trio tour of Europe incl. UK 26 June – 17 July)
A regular contributor to All About Jazz and a very busy musician, guitarist B.D. Lenz is in the middle of his 10th anniversary tour of the UK. Mix the sophistication of jazz, […]
Marvin Stamm (special guest with The Forgotten Fairground, 606 Club, 25 July)
Over a long and illustrious career, trumpeter Marvin Stamm has played with many jazz icons including Stan Kenton and Frank Sinatra. He spoke to Laura Thorne about those greats, about his big […]
ADVICE: Sound Reasoning Part 5 – leakage
Mark Wingfield is a mixing and mastering engineer at Heron Island Studio. He has three DownBeat Masterpiece albums under his belt, a Jazzwise Best Release Of The Year, and over 300 rave […]
English jazz and the Somerset connection
Sebastian’s regular London Column appears today in the July-August issue of the German magazine JAZZTHETIK (available throughout the German-speaking world). Here is the new column in English on the theme of…Somerset: Question: […]
Guitar Summit (Kings Place, 18-21 July)
The International Guitar Foundation’s four-day Guitar Summit at Kings Place covers the full range of fret activity, from classical to sophisticated pop, taking in lute music, jazz and flamenco along the way. Rob […]
Wendy Kirkland (second album, The Music’s On Me, released 20 July)
It’s “both a consolidation of the first album and something a bit different”. Pianist, singer and lyricist Wendy Kirkland tells Rob Adams about her new album, The Music’s On Me, and why […]
