Sara Schoenbeck’s new album of duos sees the New York-based bassoonist develop her musical voice in dialogue with friends and inspirations. ‘Sara Schoenbeck’ is released on 26 November. Feature by Izzy Blankfield. […]
Andrew Cartmel, Frank Griffith and Adam Sieff are three familiar names to LJN readers. All three have recently taken to the airwaves with their own jazz radio shows. Feature/ interviews by Izzy […]
Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based pianist Greg Spero has played frequently with jazz icons. He has also toured with and written music for acts like Halsey and Makaya McCraven. But at the moment his […]
The 40th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections comes from Art Blakey’s late line-up of stars in the making. This album, with its teasingly ambiguous title (is it your album of the year, […]
Madeleine Peyroux’ 2004 album Careless Love was career-changing for the Georgia (US)-born singer. The CD was certified Platinum in the UK and Gold in the US, Germany and France. The two most-played […]
Ten years after signing with the German ACT label, violinist Adam Bałdych is putting communication and emotion at the heart of his new album. ‘Poetry’ is released on 29 October. He talks […]
John Altman’s credit in the closing titles of the new James Bond movie reads ‘Studio One Conductor and Additional Arrangements.” Here he explains the back-story of how he put some big band […]
The 39th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections has the drummer making the best possible use of an elusive vocalist. A game of two halves, labelled as Parts one and two on the […]
Norma Winstone, one of the greatest jazz singers, celebrates her 80th birthday today, 23 September 2021. We invited friends, colleagues and fans to wish her a very happy birthday. Christine Allen: Norma […]
The 38th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections is a notable transatlantic collaboration. Big Air were a brilliant UK-US collaboration featuring trumpeter Chris Batchelor and multi-reeds player Steve Buckley, two of the horn […]
Singer-songwriter Georgia Mancio and art historian Marie-Anne Mancio explore the unexpected connections between artists, musicians and cultural innovators in an interactive online course. ‘Extraordinary Artists’ begins this Friday 17 September. Feature by […]
Sirabhorn, one of the tunes on the new Pat Metheny album, Side Eye V1.IV, is dedicated to – and named after – a student of Metheny’s from his days at Berklee in the mid-1970s. The […]
The 37th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features an uncommonly successful collaboration between a poet and a singer. Advice to jazz singers: Find a decent poet who is interested in songwriting. Get […]
The 36th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features a thrilling encounter between two great horn players. Joe Lovano’s long tenure with Blue Note mostly produced studio recordings, but they had to do […]
Chris Parker writes: When Charlie Watts appeared with his Tentet at Ronnie Scott’s in June 2001, I interviewed him on 5 April of that year so that he could give the readers […]
