Joshua Redman Quartet (Théâtre Maisonneuve, 2 July 2019. Montreal International Jazz Festival. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Awards ceremonies; there are such an awful lot of them, but they do have their uses. […]
Roberto Fonseca and Joe Claussel (Gesu Cultural Centre. 1 July 2019. Montreal International Jazz Festival. Review by Sebastian Scotney) “What you are hearing is natural. It is real,” said Roberto Fonseca at […]
Patricia Barber (Monument-National, 30 June 2019. Montreal International Jazz Festival. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Howard Reich, that great music writer from Patricia Barber’s home city of Chicago once described her fine artistry […]
Elbjazz 2019 (Hamburg, 31 May/1 June 2019. Festival Round-Up by Stefan Hentz*) Hamburg-based writer Stefan Hentz recently won the most prestigious award for writing about jazz in Germany, the Preis für Deutschen […]
Manchester Collective – Paradise Lost (CLF Arts Cafe. 18 June 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) Manchester Collective’s Paradise Lost reimagines Milton’s great long poem as a soundclash between the Baroque and the […]
Paris-Londres: Music Migrations (1962-1989) (Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, to 5 January 2020. Exhibition review by Dan Bergsagel) The story goes something like this: jazz came from the African-American community in […]
Thurston Moore Ensemble (Cafe Oto, 13 June 2019. Review and drawings by Geoff Winston) Thurston Moore treads an intriguing tightrope, balancing carefully measured, choreographed steps with an immersive intensity that threatens to […]
Trio M (The Stone, New York, 12 June 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) It is not easy to maintain a trio of in-demand power players when they are split across coasts, and have their hands full of projects. So this outing by […]
Frank Griffith Quartet (Boater’s Inn, Kingston, Surrey, 9 June 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) Our Friend from the North, the now-bearded tenorist Frank Griffith and sometime London Jazz News reviewer who is based […]
INNtöne Jazz Festival 2019 (Froschau, Diersbach, Austria. 7-9 June 2019. Round-Up by Sebastian Scotney; all pictures courtesy of a good friend of LJN) INNtöne is a tiny annual festival which justifibly now […]
