Yur Yesli Quartet (Kansas Smitty’s Bar. 1 August 2019. Review by Sebastian Scotney) What would George Benson have done? If he had played the same series of victorious, emphatic chords that 23-year […]
Yur Yesli Quartet at Kansas Smitty’s
Evan Parker with Birds at Cafe Oto
Evan Parker with Birds (Evan Parker, John Coxon, Ashley Wales, Mark Sanders) (Cafe Oto, 26 July 2019. Review and drawings by Geoff Winston) Evan Parker with Birds: For Steve Lacy is a […]
Prom 16: Angélique Kidjo
Prom 16: Angélique Kidjo (Royal Albert Hall. Review by Sebastian Scotney/Pictures by Mark Allan) To bop or not to bop. That is the question. For the people down there in the Royal […]
Naked City Festival 2019 in Beckenham
Naked City Festival (Beckenham Place Park, 27 July 2019. Round-up by Rachel Coombes) Undeterred by the intermittent downpours, hundreds of Londoners flocked to Beckenham Place Park on Saturday for the inaugural Naked City […]
Catenaccio at the Spice of Life
Catenaccio (Spice of Life, 24 July 2019. Review by Lauren Bush) Catenaccio is Tom Cawley’s most recent undertaking as a band leader. It delves into his love of football and synthesisers and it’s hard to tell […]
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2019
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2019 (Various venues, Edinburgh, 12-21 July 2019. Review by Patrick Hadfield) Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival outdid itself this year: the programme was so full of attractive […]
Spirit Fingers – Interview plus review (Ronnie Scott’s 25 July, Hampstead 26/27 July)
Rob Mallows, for LondonJazz News, met up with the members of Spirit Fingers at the start of a mini-heatwave in London. The music later that night at Pizza Express Holborn matched the weather! The band […]
2019 Swanage Festival
Swanage Festival (Mowlem Theatre and other venues in Swanage. 13-14 July 2019. Report by Brian Blain) One of the unforeseen positives of what was, as Peter Jones reported in his round-up published […]
Wood Street Jazz Festival 2019
Wood Street Jazz Festival (Wood Street Village, Surrey, 21 July 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) Picture this quintessentially English scene. A marquee is set up on an ample village green in the heart […]
Jazz Leeds Festival 2019
Jazz Leeds Festival 2019 (Various venues, 18-21 July 2019. Photographs and report by William Ellis) I’ve just spent the weekend at the Jazz Leeds Festival – now in its 3rd year with […]
