Rachael Cohen Quartet (The Oxford, Kentish Town. 9 March 2020. Review by Brian Blain) A trip to one of the regular Monday nights at The Oxford in Kentish Town last week to […]
Rachael Cohen Quartet at the Oxford in Kentish Town
GO: Organic Chamber Ensemble at Roulette in Brooklyn
GO: Organic Chamber Ensemble presents Mu Wi (Roulette, Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. 8 March 2020. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Mu Wi (natural action) brought Noh theatre and Gagaku court music together at its […]
Brad Mehldau Trio at Barbican Centre
Brad Mehldau Trio (Barbican Centre. 9 March 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney) We are all in need of reassurance that some things at least are right with the world. And for fans […]
The Pucciarelli Group at Hampstead Jazz Club
The Pucciarelli Group (Hampstead Jazz Club. 5 March 2020. Review by Lavender Sutton) The basement of Hampstead Jazz Club is an intimate and friendly setting where bands can communicate directly with their […]
Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2020
Liverpool International Jazz festival (Capstone Theatre, Liverpool. 29 February- 1 March 2020. Days 3 and 4 of the 4-day festival. Round-up by Peter Slavid) The Liverpool Jazz Festival has done that rare […]
BRÅK Festival of Improvised Music at the Hundred Years Gallery
BRÅK Festival of Improvised Music (Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton. 29 February 2020. Review by AJ Dehany. Photos courtesy of BRÅK) There’s a smart little place called waterintobeer in Brockley that stocks […]
“Celebrating Duncan Lamont” at the 606 Club
Celebrating Duncan Lamont (606 Club. 24 February 2020. Review by Brian Blain. All photos by Tony Day) If the show at Steve Rubie’s great 606 club in Chelsea last Monday to celebrate […]
Alison Rayner Quintet (ARQ) at Pizza Express Dean Street
Alison Rayner Quintet (ARQ) (Pizza Express. 26 February 2020. Review by Alison Bentley) Sometimes the mood of a gig lingers on long after it’s over. British bassist Alison Rayner’s Quintet were […]
Scottish Jazz Weekend in Edinburgh
Scottish Jazz Weekend. (Various venues in Edinburgh, February 21-24. Review and all photos by Patrick Hadfield) In an otherwise fallow period, for the second year the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival programmed […]
Nick Costley-White “Speak Like A Child” Sextet at Pizza Express Dean Street
Nick Costley-White “Speak Like A Child” Sextet (Pizza Express Dean Street. 23 February 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney) What a great project. Speak Like a Child was an album by Herbie Hancock […]
Arun Ghosh Quartet + Archipelago at Sunday Jazz in the Crypt, Middlesbrough
Arun Ghosh Quartet + Archipelago (Middlesbrough Sunday Jazz in the Crypt February 2020 edition. Review by AJ Dehany) Arun Ghosh’s music has a kaleidoscopic melodicism that sounds naturally exotic without contriving to […]
Kamasi Washington at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn
Kamasi Washington (Kings Theatre, Brooklyn. 20 February 2020. Review by Dan Bergsagel) It has probably been five years since Kamasi Washington last played an intimate venue, but the Kings Theatre is really […]
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, Niall Greig Fulton – “Planet Wave” in Edinburgh
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Niall Greig Fulton – Planet Wave (Queens Hall Edinburgh, 21 February 2020. Review by Mark McKergow) The SNJO re-stretched their musical boundaries with this emphatic performance of […]
Noah Preminger Quintet at Smalls NYC
Piece for Noah Preminger Quintet (Smalls, NYC. 19 February 2020. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Noah Preminger, the much vaunted tenor player, is passing through Manhattan with his quintet en route back to […]
Filomena Campus Quartet at the Vortex
Filomena Campus Quartet (Vortex, 15 February 2020. Review by Alison Bentley) Something jazz and the theatre have in common: improvisation. At London’s Vortex, Sardinian vocalist Filomena Campus drew on her knowledge of […]
