Südtirol Jazzfestival – Part 2 (Alto Adige 28 June-7 July 2019. Round-up by Alison Bentley) Jazz often looks backwards and forwards at the same time, a kind of nostalgia for the present. Italian trio […]
Südtirol Jazzfestival, 2019 – Part 2
Love Supreme Jazz Festival at Glynde Place – Saturday
Love Supreme Jazz Festival – Saturday (Glynde Place, East Sussex, 6 July 2019. Round-up by Lauren Bush) My first time at any big outdoor music festival, I jumped off the bus on […]
Maria Schneider and the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra at Ronnie Scott’s
Maria Schneider and the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra (Ronnie Scott’s, 5 July 2019, early show. Review by Jon Turney) One of the great contemporary jazz composers, Maria Schneider’s intricately arranged music is […]
Südtirol Jazzfestival, 2019 – Part 1
Südtirol Jazzfestival – Part 1 (Alto Adige, 28 June-7 July 2019. Round-up by Alison Bentley) The art of the duo: how do a mere two musicians vary their set to keep the audience’s […]
Canadian musicians round-up (2019 MIJF)
Canadian Musicians at 2019 MIJF (Various venues in Montreal 1-5 July 2019. Report by Sebastian Scotney I cannot possibly let one sublime act of generosity on Friday night from Montreal drummer Jim […]
Kendrick Scott Oracle at Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill (2019 MIJF)
Kendrick Scott Oracle (Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill. 4 July 2019. Montreal International Jazz Festival. Review by Sebastian Scotney) There is such a lot of reflecting and reminiscing going on here at […]
Alex Hitchcock Quintet at Pizza Express Jazz Club
Alex Hitchcock Quintet (Pizza Expresss Jazz Club, 3 July 2019. Review by Lauren Bush) Tenor saxophonist Alex Hitchcock and his quintet have just finished off a 10-stop tour at Pizza Express Jazz Club. Wednesday […]
Christine Jensen New York Quartet at Gesu Cultural Centre (2019 MIJF)
Christine Jensen New York Quartet with Helen Sung, Allison Miller and Noriko Ueda (Gesu Cultural Centre. 3 July 2019. Montreal International Jazz Festival. Review by Sebastian Scotney) “The Festival gave me carte […]
Joshua Redman Quartet at Théâtre Maisonneuve (2019 MIJF)
Joshua Redman Quartet (Théâtre Maisonneuve, 2 July 2019. Montreal International Jazz Festival. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Awards ceremonies; there are such an awful lot of them, but they do have their uses. […]
Roberto Fonseca and Joe Claussel at Gesu Cultural Centre (2019 MIJF)
Roberto Fonseca and Joe Claussel (Gesu Cultural Centre. 1 July 2019. Montreal International Jazz Festival. Review by Sebastian Scotney) “What you are hearing is natural. It is real,” said Roberto Fonseca at […]
Patricia Barber at Monument-National (2019 Montreal International Jazz Festival)
Patricia Barber (Monument-National, 30 June 2019. Montreal International Jazz Festival. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Howard Reich, that great music writer from Patricia Barber’s home city of Chicago once described her fine artistry […]
Elbjazz 2019, Hamburg
Elbjazz 2019 (Hamburg, 31 May/1 June 2019. Festival Round-Up by Stefan Hentz*) Hamburg-based writer Stefan Hentz recently won the most prestigious award for writing about jazz in Germany, the Preis für Deutschen […]
Manchester Collective’s Paradise Lost at CLF Arts Cafe
Manchester Collective – Paradise Lost (CLF Arts Cafe. 18 June 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) Manchester Collective’s Paradise Lost reimagines Milton’s great long poem as a soundclash between the Baroque and the […]
Paris-Londres: Music Migrations (1962-1989) at Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris
Paris-Londres: Music Migrations (1962-1989) (Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, to 5 January 2020. Exhibition review by Dan Bergsagel) The story goes something like this: jazz came from the African-American community in […]
Thurston Moore Ensemble at Cafe Oto
Thurston Moore Ensemble (Cafe Oto, 13 June 2019. Review and drawings by Geoff Winston) Thurston Moore treads an intriguing tightrope, balancing carefully measured, choreographed steps with an immersive intensity that threatens to […]
