French horn player Jim Rattigan’s new release, the 3-CD box set “Duos” – also featuring pianists Ivo Neame and Hans Koller, and guitarist Nick Costley-White – will be released on 20 October […]
Jim Rattigan (new 3-CD box set ‘Duos’)
Mondays with Morgan: Darcy James Argue (new album ‘Dynamic Maximum Tension’)
Mondays With Morgan is a column in LondonJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves him – […]
Becky Alice (running Wednesday evening gigs at Oliver’s, Greenwich)
Vocalist Becky Alice, a recent graduate from the jazz course at Trinity Laban, has just taken over the running of the Wednesday night gig at Oliver’s Club in Nevada Street in Greenwich […]
Insa Stanke (Organiser of jazzahead! Showcase programme – 2024 applications currently open)
The jazzahead! Showcase programme gives bands the opportunity to perform in front of a representative and influential group from the worldwide jazz industry. The window for applications to appear in the 2024 […]
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog – ‘Connection’
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog – Connection (Enja Yellowbird. Album review by Jon Turney) Marc Ribot’s heavily rhythmic, slightly distorted electric guitar sound is rooted in rock and the bluesier end of Americana […]
Matt Choboter – ‘Postcards of Nostalgia’
Matt Choboter – Postcards of Nostalgia (ILK Music ILK344 LP/CD. Album review by Frank Graham) From Keith Tippett to Benoît Delbecq and Eve Risser, improvising pianists continue to find inspiration in John […]
Dee Byrne – ‘Outlines’
Dee Byrne – Outlines (Whirlwind Records CD WR 4809. CD review by Jon Turney) Alto saxophonist Dee Byrne’s title for this very attractive set apparently refers to drawings she made as a […]
Kenny Wheeler: ‘Gnu High’ and Nana Vasconcelos: ‘Saudades’ (ECM Luminessence Series)
Kenny Wheeler: Gnu High rec. 1975 and Nana Vasconcelos: Saudades rec. 1979 (ECM Luminessence Series (on vinyl). Double review by Phil Johnson) ECM’s new Luminessence series of audiophile vinyl releases from their […]
Mondays With Morgan: Bokani Dyer Group & Melissa Aldana at Dizzy’s NYC
Mondays With Morgan is a new column in London Jazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves […]
Enzo Zirilli’s ZiroBop – ‘Ten Past Never’
Enzo Zirilli’s ZiroBop – Ten Past Never (Ubuntu Music UBU0128. Review by Bruce Lindsay) Enzo Zirilli, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Rob Luft and Alessandro Chiappetta form the quartet known as ZiroBop and provide its […]
Emmet Cohen & Danny Grissett at the Steinway 2-Piano Festival at Pizza Express Soho
Emmet Cohen & Danny Grissett, Steinway 2-Piano Festival (Pizza Express 23 March 2023. Live review by Len Weinreich) Evanescent, but indelible… If you were attempting a list of really rare events, hearing […]
Samara Joy at the Jazz Cafe
Samara Joy (Jazz Cafe Camden Town. 7 March 2023. Live review by Sebastian Scotney) Inexorable. Inevitable. Meteoric. Well-deserved. Heartening. Rapid. All of the above. The adjectives to describe the rise in the […]
RIP Fionna Duncan (1939-2022)
An important and highly influential figure on the Scottish scene, vocalist and educator Fionna Duncan died on Tuesday 6 December 2022 at the age of 83. As Rob Adams has written in […]
Reis Demuth Wiltgen with Emile V. Schlesser: ‘Synaesthesia’ at SHUFFLE LX in Luxembourg
Reis Demuth Wiltgen with Emile V. Schlesser — Synaesthesia ( SHUFFLE LX —Opderschmelz, Dudelange, Luxembourg. 26 November 2022. Live review by AJ Dehany) “I can see colours dancing in my head. I […]
“Morden You Know” – Jazz Standards within the M25…
Sebastian writes: It’s London…it’s jazz…so I guess it concerns us here at LJN… so we’re posting about it… Our good friend Nigel Price opened up a particular floodgate on Facebook (over 700 […]
