Elchin Shirinov Trio (Heath Street Baptist Church Hampstead, 18 March 2023. Live review by Oliver Weindling) It is over four years since Azerbaijan-born pianist Elchin Shirinov was able to play as a […]
Dameronia’s Legacy All-Stars (Ronnie Scott’s. 19 March 2023. Live review by Charles Rees) Austrian drummer Bernd Reiter talks often of his love for the playing of bebop drummer Philly Joe Jones, which […]
An Audience with Father John Misty (Sage Gateshead, 13 March 2023. Report by AJ Dehany) “As you can tell from all the fake jazz music you heard earlier, I was really floundering […]
Michael Janisch Band (Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. 14 March 2023. Review and photos by John Watson) Concerts by touring American bands have been rather thin on the ground in recent […]
Samara Joy (Jazz Cafe Camden Town. 7 March 2023. Live review by Sebastian Scotney) Inexorable. Inevitable. Meteoric. Well-deserved. Heartening. Rapid. All of the above. The adjectives to describe the rise in the […]
Larry Goldings / Peter Bernstein / Bill Stewart – Perpetual Pendulum (Pizza Express Dean Street, 4 March 2023. Second House. Live review by Gabriel Taylor) It’s often the case that the musicians […]
Clown Core (Bimhuis, Amsterdam. 3 March 2023, 2nd night of 3. Live review by AJ Dehany) Any Dutch music festival is just one pumpkin away from a brain-melting musical aneurysm. At Rewire […]
Run Logan Run at Sage Two (Sage Gateshead, Sage Two, 18 February. Review by AJ Dehany) Run Logan Run, the longstanding duo of Andrew Hayes and Matt Brown, can certainly play. To […]
Tim Garland and Jason Rebello – Life to Life (Whirlwind Recordings – WR4799. Album review by Jon Turney) Duos don’t come better matched than this partnership. Tim Garland and Jason Rebello have […]
Peter Brötzmann, Jason Adasiewicz, John Edwards, Steve Noble(Cafe OTO, 2-day residency 10-11 February 2023. Live review and drawings by Geoff Winston) After humbly letting the Cafe OTO audience know that “It’s a […]
Beats & Pieces Big Band (Symphony Hall, Birmingham. 8 February 2023. Review and photos by John Watson) A second night of big band jazz brought more joy to fans of large ensembles […]
Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra (Symphony Hall, Birmingham. 7 February 2023. Review and photos by John Watson) The Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra has won critical acclaim for the new album “Tales From The […]
Peter Urpeth and Evan Parker (Hundred Years Gallery, 28 January 2023. Live Review and drawings by Geoff Winston) Poet Peter Urpeth and saxophonist Evan Parker go back a long way, some 40 […]
Wendy Kirkland Quartet featuring Dennis Rollins MBE – “Get Carter Reimagined” (The Grand Hotel, Southport. 4 February 2023. Southport Jazz Festival. Live review by Frank Griffith) Jazz fans in the North-West of the […]
Jerusalem Orchestra East & West (Barbican Hall. 5 Feb 2023. Live review by Rachel Coombes) “I never thought that my trance music could happen with a classical orchestra. Because of these guys, […]
