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 […]
“Celebrating Duncan Lamont” at the 606 Club
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 […]
Kit Downes/Tom Challenger, Lauren Redhead/Alistair Zaldua, Andrew Woodhead at Ideas of Noise in Birmingham.
Kit Downes & Tom Challenger – Vyamanikal Lauren Redhead & Alistair Zaldua – vox humana Andrew Woodhead – Pendulums (Ideas of Noise Festival, St Paul’s Church, Birmingham. 8 February 2020. Review by […]
Martin Speake Quartet with Ethan Iverson at Eastside Jazz Club, Birmingham
Martin Speake Quartet with Ethan Iverson (Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 13 February 2020. Review and photos by John Watson) The sound is plaintive and cool in musical temperature – subtle vibrato, […]
Cherise – “Paradise” EP launch at Kings Place
Cherise (Kings Place, 7 Feb 2020. Review by Leah Williams.) Cherise Adams-Burnett had an incredible whirlwind year in 2019, performing across the globe and being named Jazz FM Vocalist of the Year, […]
“Paul Dunmall Invites”… with Liam Noble, John Edwards, Mark Sanders at Eastside Jazz Club in Birmingham)
Paul Dunmall Invites… with Liam Noble, John Edwards, Mark Sanders (Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. 6 February 2020. Review by AJ Dehany) Saxophonist Paul Dunmall is one of the most complete […]
ECM at 50 Celebration Concerts at the Royal Academy of Music
RAM concerts: ECM at 50 (Susie Sainsbury Theatre, RAM, 30 and 31 January 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney – Thursday; Sam Norris – Friday first half) The Royal Academy’s celebration of the […]
“The Big Blind” with Kurt Elling and Dee Dee Bridgewater at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Big Blind with Kurt Elling and Dee Dee Bridgewater (Queen Elizabeth Hall. 31 January 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney) The musical The Big Blind is a big show: its music and dialogue […]
