Jazz & the City, Salzburg – Part 2 (Various venues in Salzburg. 19-20 October 2019. Round-up by Leah Williams) New Orleans songstress Mykia Joven was the literal poster girl for Jazz & […]
Jazz & the City, Salzburg – Part 2
Jazz & The City Festival, Salzburg – Part 1
Jazz & The City Festival – Part 1 (Various venues, Salzburg, 17/18 October 2019. Round-up review by Leah Williams) Landing quite late on the second official day of Salzburg’s Jazz & the […]
Morten Schantz Godspeed at Sounds of Denmark Revisited
Morten Schantz Godspeed (Pizza Express Dean Street. Sounds of Denmark Revisited. 16 October 2019. Review by Mary James) Thousands of miles together in planes, weeks away from home, gigs in Copenhagen, Beijing, […]
Mingus Big Band at the Jazz Standard, NYC
Mingus Big Band (Jazz Standard, E 27th Street, New York. 14 October 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Monday is often a night off in the jazz world, but not at the Jazz […]
Where We Once Belonged – Georgia Mancio’s 2019 Hang at Pizza Express
Where We Once Belonged at Georgia Mancio’s Hang (Pizza Express Dean Street. 9 October 2019. Review by Sebastian Scotney) The opening night of Georgia Mancio’s three-evening Hang series took on a very bold […]
“O’Higgins and Luft play Monk and Trane” Album Launch at Pizza Express Dean Street
O’Higgins and Luft play Monk and Trane Album Launch (Pizza Express Dean Street, 7 October 2019. Review by Sebastian Scotney) “Technological progress has merely provided us with more effective means of going […]
Tony Woods Project at Milestones Jazz Club in Lowestoft
Tony Woods Project, Hidden Fires Tour 2019 (Milestones Jazz Club, Lowestoft. 6 October 2019. Review by John Arnett) As a relative newcomer to the music of Tony Woods, this concert, on a […]
Ethan Iverson, Joe Sanders, Jorge Rossy at Porgy & Bess Club in Vienna
Ethan Iverson, Joe Sanders, Jorge Rossy (Porgy & Bess Club, Vienna, 17 September 2019. Review by Oliver Weindling) This gig somehow seemed to reverberate with a city that spawned some of the […]
London East Jazz Festival
London East Jazz Festival (Leytonstone Ballroom/Red Lion, 5 October 2019. Review by Sarah Chaplin) Earlier this year, as Waltham Forest became the first ever London Borough of Culture, Mark Kass, a prolific […]
Marco Marconi Trio featuring Max Ionata – “New Roads” album launch at the 606 Club
Marco Marconi Trio featuring Max Ionata (606 Club. 3 October 2019. Review by Sebastian Scotney) One influential figure in British jazz recently told me a story. As he was walking past a […]
Paul Zauner and Carlton Holmes in Passau, Germany
Paul Zauner and Carlton Holmes (Gotischen Langhaus Niedernburg, Passau. 21 September 2019. Review by Oliver Weindling) A duo has a great sense of intimacy and the best manage to draw each member […]
Alpenspektakel 2019 – Gut Sonnenhausen
Alpenspektakel 2019 – Gut Sonnenhausen (Glonn, Upper Bavaria, 20-22 September 2019. Report by Ralf Dombrowski(*) Above all this is a lovely location. And it hosts a lovely festival. And these two go […]
Adrian Cox – Profoundly Blue at the National Jazz Archive/Loughton Methodist Church
Adrian Cox – Profoundly Blue (National Jazz Archive/Loughton Methodist Church. 28 September 2019. Review by Sue Carrette) Profoundly Blue celebrates the work of clarinettist Edmond Hall (1901-1967), taking a chronological journey through […]
Joe Downard Sextet – Seven Japanese Tales at the Vortex
Joe Downard Sextet – Seven Japanese Tales (Vortex, 23 September 2019. Review by Dominic Williams) This gig was part of The Shape of Jazz To Come, a Vortex programme supported by the Dave Holland […]
Miles Davis 1959 – Porgy and Bess…Kind of Blue And More at Cadogan Hall
Miles Davis 1959 – Porgy and Bess…Kind of Blue And More (Cadogan Hall, London, 21 September 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) Nothing ventured, nothing gained, so the old adage goes. Richard Pite’s Jazz Repertory […]
