Plaza Real, which will host an outdoor stagePhoto credit: Wikimedia Commons Mas i Mas fills Barcelona with music for the whole month of the month of August. It is also combining for […]
Play, issued by the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM), is described as “a psychological toolkit for optimal music performance”. Who is it for? Anyone who makes music. Peter Bacon found out more […]
Dana MurrayPublicity picture US drummer and producer Dana Murray’s album Negro Manifesto places him in the vanguard of a wave of artists getting under the skin of contemporary America. AJ Dehany spoke […]
Jeremy Sassoon at Goostrey Festival, Cheshire, 2010Photo credit: William Ellis Singer-pianist JEREMY SASSOON has a new album out, Jeremy Sassoon and Friends. It was recorded live at Pizza Express Dean Street in […]
Barry Humphries and Meow Meow inWeimar Cabaret in Edinburgh in 2016Photo supplied by EMG Media “Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret” will be at the Barbican from 11 to 29 July. Melbourne-based musicologist Peter Tregear […]
Tristan – with Evelyn Kallansee, vocalist, and keyboards player Coen Molenaar far right.Publicity photo Jazz-funksters Tristan are the latest band to visit the UK through the Going Dutch project, organised by the […]
Colin RileyPublicity picture Is it a suite? Is it a song cycle? Is it a spoken word project? Is it classical? Is it jazz? Is it electronica? AJ Dehany goes in search […]
Giles ThorntonPhoto credit: And Heathcote Composer/Arranger/Conductor GILES THORNTON will shortly be finishing the undergraduate course at Guildhall School. And yet he has already worked with the Metropole Orkest at the BBC Proms, and […]
The Pablo Held TrioL-R: Pablo Held, Jonas Burgwinkel, Robert LandfermannPhoto courtesy of artribute.de Cologne-based pianist PABLO HELD’s long-standing trio, with ten albums to its name, is one of the groups at Edition […]
Scott Stroman directing the Singers’ Weekend in 2017Photo courtesy of GSMD London’s Guildhall School Of Music and Drama has been running one of the UK’s top summer schools for over 30 years, […]
Loz Speyer’s Inner SpacePhoto Credit: Katie D Edwards There is experimentation galore from the new tour by LOZ SPEYER’s Inner Space, writes Martin Chilton. They are improvising new material and giving a […]
Claudio ScolariPhoto credit: Antonio Bassi Natural Impulse (Principal Records), the third album by Italian trio Claudio Scolari, Daniele Cavalca and Simone Scolari, was released in January. AJ Dehany and Claudio Scolari took […]
John GoldsbyPhoto credit: Julia Goldsby John Goldsby is many things: bass player, jazz writer, educator, and teacher. He has written a definitive book on jazz bass, The Jazz Bass Book: Technique and […]
Raph ClarksonPhoto credit: Jake Walker Composer, trombonist and band leader RAPH CLARKSON has a fascinating story to tell, a story which draws on his family history and, in a new album, presents […]
John GoldsbyPhoto credit: © Julia Goldsby 2017 John Goldsby is many things: bass player, jazz writer, educator, and teacher. He has written a definitive book on jazz bass, The Jazz Bass Book: […]
