Rob Luft, Elina Duni and Fred Thomas (Ronnie Scott’s. 22 June 2021. Review by Peter Jones) It’s not often you emerge from Ronnie Scott’s at the end of an evening gig to […]
Rob Luft and Elina Duni at Ronnie Scott’s
Liane Carroll and Ian Shaw at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street (re-opening gig)
Liane Carroll and Ian Shaw (Pizza Express Dean Street. 21 June 2021 – re-opening gig. Review by Lavender Sutton) It’s been more than a year since performers and a live audience have […]
Five-Way Split at Toulouse Lautrec
Five-Way Split(Toulouse Lautrec. 12 June 2021. Review by Lavender Sutton) Toulouse Lautrec has been back in full swing for a few weeks now with everything from burlesque to singer-songwriters to life drawing […]
HJC presents ‘Jazz On A Summer’s Evening’ at Cadogan Hall
HJC Presents ‘Jazz On A Summer’s Evening’ (Cadogan Hall. 5 June 2021. Review by Lavender Sutton) Jazz On A Summer’s Evening at Cadogan Hall, presented by the Hampstead Jazz Club, finally came […]
Evan Parker at Cafe OTO
Evan Parker solo and in conversation (Cafe OTO. 22 May 2021. Review and drawings by Geoff Winston) To celebrate the launch of the limited edition reissue, on Cafe OTO’s OTORUKU label, of […]
Catherine Lima – ‘The Allure of Miss Lee’ at Ronnie Scott’s
Catherine Lima – ‘The Allure of Miss Lee’ (Ronnie Scott’s. 30 May 2021. Report by Romy Summers) It’s so good to be back seeing live music. This was the first event I’d […]
Omar + QCBA – Live at the Jazz Café
Omar + QCBA (Live at The Jazz Café. Also recorded for future release as a live album. 29 May 2021. Review by Lavender Sutton) Camden Town on a Saturday night was an […]
Jim Mullen Trio at the 606 Club: Re-Opening Night (!)
Sebastian writes: Whereas there has been music coming from the 606 – the Chelsea club has been broadcasting a couple of live streams each week throughout the pandemic – last night, 20 […]
SNJO/ Maria Rud – ‘Where Rivers Meet’, Parts 2 +4: Dewey Redman + Albert Ayler
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Maria Rud – Where Rivers Meet: The Music of Dewey Redman and Albert Ayler (Recorded at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh on 30 April 2021. Streaming until August […]
SNJO/Maria Rud – ‘Where Rivers Meet, ‘Parts 1 and 3: Ornette Coleman + Anthony Braxton
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Maria Rud – Where Rivers Meet, Parts 1 + 3 : The Music of Ornette Coleman and Anthony Braxton (Recorded at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh on 30 April […]
Moses Boyd at the Barbican Centre
Moses Boyd (Livestream from the Barbican, Sunday 18 April. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Moses Boyd presented a set of material from his Mercury Prize nominated album Dark Matter with an augmented version […]
Elliot Galvin and Laura Jurd (The Shape of Jazz to Come, streamed from Vortex)
Elliot Galvin and Laura Jurd(The Vortex. Streamed on 8 April 2021. Review by Patrick Hadfield) One of the few good things to come out of the global pandemic has been the accessibility […]
Lionel Loueke at Unterfahrt Munich (Instant Tour 2021)
Lionel Loueke (Unterfahrt Munich, 13 March 2021. Live review by Ralf Dombrowski) Review of a live concert at Unterfahrt. English version (*) first, then Ralf Dombrowski’s original German Tours these days aren’t […]
Jason Moran – ‘The Harlem Hellfighters’ (Video premiere)
Jason Moran – The Harlem Hellfighters (Video premiere, streamed on 22 January 2021.) Here’s an unexpected pleasure. Jason Moran toured this important history-awakening project in 2018, briefly but brilliantly, to mark the […]
Kansas Smitty’s play live to ‘Miracle on 34th Street’
Miracle on 34th Street (Kansas Smitty’s film score livestreamed 24 December HERE. Review by Leah Williams) The much-loved and irrepressible Kansas Smitty’s band continue to be hugely creative with online formats: just […]
