Art Themen (Fringe Jazz at Bristol Music Club. 28 September. Review by Mike Collins) A stone’s throw from the University of Bristol’s Student Union building, it’s easy to miss the steps down […]
Art Themen at Bristol Music Club
Mike Westbrook’s ‘Rossini Re-Loaded’ at West Road, Cambridge
Mike Westbrook & The Uncommon Orchestra. Rossini – Re-Loaded, Cambridge Modern Jazz at West Road Concert Hall , 27 September 2022. Review by Duncan Heining) Gioachino Rossini danced with the Count – […]
Bulgarian Showcases at the Europe Jazz Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Showcases at Europe Jazz Conference (National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria, 22-25 September 2022. Report by Tony Dudley-Evans) This year’s Europe Jazz Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria presented a showcase programme, giving […]
Tina May – ‘A Celebration!’ at Ronnie Scott’s
Sebastian writes: Words aren’t going to do justice to an occasion as powerful and memorable as this… there may be some photos along later… so for the moment we go analogue and […]
Hans Koller Big Band at the Vortex
Hans Koller Big Band(Vortex Jazz Club. 24 September 2022. Live review by Duncan Heining) Hans Koller is one of the most accomplished composer/arrangers on the UK scene today. Had he been around […]
William Parker Quartet at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn NYC
William Parker Quartet (Green-Wood Cemetery. Concerts in the Catacombs series. 22 September 2022. Live review by Dan Bergsagel) There was no extended chat from the concert hosts at Green-Wood Cemetery to introduce this […]
Cellicious (Kate Shortt and Rupert Gillett) at Lauderdale House
Cellicious (Kate Shortt and Rupert Gillett) (Lauderdale House, 22 September 2022. Short live review by Sebastian Scotney) This was a clever choice to welcome a loyal audience back for the 2022-2023 season […]
Julia Hülsmann Quartet – ‘The Next Door’ album launch at A-Trane Berlin
Julia Hülsmann Quartet (A-Trane Berlin. 14 September 2022. The Next Door’ album launch. Review by Sebastian Scotney) We are at the launch of an ECM album, and at first we think we […]
Yetii at The Greenbank in Bristol
Yetii (The Greenbank, Easton, Bristol. 8 September 2022. Live review by Mike Collins) A Thursday at the end of summer, and Summer, had an elegiac air, a hymn-like harmony, alluring, unexpected shifts in […]
Jakob Bro Trio with Anders Christensen and Brian Blade at Flagey, Brussels
Jakob Bro Trio with Anders Christensen and Brian Blade (Flagey Studio 1, Brussels. Sunday 4 September 2022. Fourth night of four. Live review by Dick Hovenga(*) Dick Hovenga, who runs the Dutch […]
Prom 63: Marius Neset/ London Sinfonietta – ‘Geyser’ world premiere,
Marius Neset/ London Sinfonietta / Geoffrey Paterson – Geyser (Royal Albert Hall – Proms 2022, Saturday 3 September. Live review by Rob Mallows) Out of pain, comes beauty. Geyser – the new […]
Fills Monkey ‘We Will Drum You’ at the Edinburgh Fringe
Fills Monkey: We Will Drum You (The Grand, The Pleasance, Edinburgh. 28 August 2022. Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Live Review by Fiona Mactaggart.) When the electric saw made its appearance, I […]
Mark Kavuma and The Banger Factory at the Dome Stage, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
Mark Kavuma and The Banger Factory Dome Stage, Snape Maltings, 29 August 2022. Live review by John Arnett) This was the last in an imaginative and diverse programme of free open air […]
Prom 56: The South African Jazz Songbook (Metropole Orkest/ Marcus Wyatt)
Prom 56: The South African Jazz Songbook (Metropole Orkest/ Marcus Wyatt) (Royal Albert Hall, 28 August 2022. Review by Sebastian Scotney) There is an abiding truth about South African jazz, and it […]
Barga Jazz Festival and Competition 2022 (Italy)
Barga Jazz Festival and Competition(Barga, Italy, 26 & 27 August 2022. Festival and competition round-up by Francesco Martinelli*) The stunning city of Barga, in the Serchio Valley to the north of Lucca, […]
