Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival (Various venues, Islay, 13-15 September 2019. Review and photos by Patrick Hadfield) The Islay Jazz Festival, sponsored by Lagavulin and produced by Islay Arts and Jazz Scotland, is […]
Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival
Telepathic Band at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
Telepathic Band – Electric Telepathy Vol. 1 album launch (Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, 10 September 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Album launch sets come in all shapes and sizes: sometimes they are a […]
The Big Chris Barber Band at Cadogan Hall
The Big Chris Barber Band (Cadogan Hall, London, 13 September 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) When Bob Hunt, the band’s trombonist and musical director, came out on stage it was to emphasize that […]
Pigfoot – Pigfoot Shuffle launch at The Vortex
Pigfoot – Pigfoot Shuffle launch (The Vortex, 7 September 2019. Review by Richard Lee) I’d just gone along as a punter, and to be honest, Adrian Pallant’s liner notes to the new album launched […]
Punkt Festival 2019, Norway – Part 2
Punkt Festival – Part 2 (Kristiansand, Norway, 5-7 September 2019. Round-Up by Martin Longley) It’s unusual to hear the Thurston Moore Group play instrumental music, but that’s what’s promised on their soon-coming […]
Punkt Festival 2019, Norway – Part 1
Punkt Festival – Part 1 (Kristiansand, Norway, 5-7 September 2019. Round-Up by Martin Longley) When artists perform at Punkt, they have to agree to be sampled, and then to have their contents […]
Quentin Collins Sextet (Road Warrior album launch) at Pizza Express
Quentin Collins Sextet (Road Warrior album launch) Pizza Express Jazz Club, 3 September 2019. Review by Brian Blain) Quite an occasion at Dean Street’s Pizza Express last Tuesday when two packed houses […]
30th Reykjavik Jazz Festival
Reykjavik Jazzhátíð/ Reykjavik Jazz Festival (Reykjavik, Iceland. 4-8 September 2019. Festival Round-Up by Sebastian Scotney) This first-time visit to Iceland has been a fascinating voyage of discovery. During four days at the […]
The band with no name: Deurloo/Zawadzki/Chisnall at Ambleside
The band with no name: Deurloo/Zawadzki/Chisnall (Ambleside Days Contemporary Jazz Festival, 31 August 2019. Review by Mike Collins) The Ambleside Days festival has an enticing roster of nightly gigs with an impressive […]
Howl Quartet and Howes3 at the Vortex
Howl Quartet and Howes3 (Vortex, Dalston. 31 August 2019. Review by Lauren Bush) Ubuntu Music has been signing and presenting some terrific acts in the last several years, and their showcase at […]
Prom 54 – Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music at the Royal Albert Hall
Prom 54 – Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music (Royal Albert Hall, 29 August 2019. Review by Lauren Bush) Duke Ellington’s sacred music was, to him, the most important project of his career. He […]
Paul Booth Quartet (Travel Sketches album launch) at Pizza Express
Paul Booth Quartet (Travel Sketches album launch) (Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, 27 August 2019. Review by Dominic Williams) On the hottest of nights, the coolest of jazz. Tenor saxophonist Paul Booth’s […]
Olly Chalk Trio with John O’Gallagher in Liverpool
Olly Chalk Trio with John O’Gallagher (The Music Room, Liverpool. 24 August 2019. Review by Frank Griffith) On 24 August, The Music Room at Liverpool’s venerated Philharmonic Hall featured Suffolk-born, Birmingham Conservatoire-trained pianist Olly […]
Hevhet Fest 2019 at Kosice in Slovakia
Hevhet Fest (Kosice, Slovakia. 18-19 August 2019. Round-up by Oliver Weindling) The music, the attitude, the commitment in evidence at this showcase/festival organised by the Slovak Hevhetia label were an inspiration. Over […]
Mississippi Goddam: The 2019 Nina Simone Prom at the Royal Albert Hall
Prom 45 – Mississippi Goddam: A Portrait of Nina Simone (Royal Albert Hall. 21 August 2019. BBC Proms. Review by Rachel Coombes) Long-standing Nina Simone fans, and anyone who has seen the […]
