Sebastian writes: This is the first of two reports from my first visit to the Bergamo Jazz Festival, going from the specific to the more general. This part is motivated by one […]
Bergamo Jazz 2023. Part 1.
Jazzdor Budapest 2023
Jazzdor Budapest (Budapest Music Center. 22 to 25 March 2023. Festival report by Tony Dudley-Evans) Jazzdor Budapest 2023 is a collaboration between Jazzdor Strasbourg, one of Europe’s top jazz festivals with over […]
Outlines (Dee Byrne) at The Globe in Newcastle Upon Tyne
Outlines (Byrne/Malcolm/Ward/Nash/Brice/Lisle) (The Globe, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Sunday 26 March 2023) The brainchild of composer and saxophonist Dee Byrne, Outlines is a strong set of fascinating original compositions realised by something of a […]
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 […]
Elchin Shirinov Trio at Heath Street Baptist Church in Hampstead
Elchin Shirinov Trio (Heath Street Baptist Church Hampstead, 18 March 2023. Live review by Oliver Weindling) It is over four years since Azerbaijan-born pianist Elchin Shirinov was able to play as a […]
Dameronia’s Legacy All-Stars at Ronnie Scott’s
Dameronia’s Legacy All-Stars (Ronnie Scott’s. 19 March 2023. Live review by Charles Rees) Austrian drummer Bernd Reiter talks often of his love for the playing of bebop drummer Philly Joe Jones, which […]
An Audience with Father John Misty at Sage Gateshead
An Audience with Father John Misty (Sage Gateshead, 13 March 2023. Report by AJ Dehany) “As you can tell from all the fake jazz music you heard earlier, I was really floundering […]
Michael Janisch Band at Eastside Jazz Club in Birmingham
Michael Janisch Band (Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. 14 March 2023. Review and photos by John Watson) Concerts by touring American bands have been rather thin on the ground in recent […]
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 […]
Larry Goldings / Peter Bernstein / Bill Stewart Trio at Pizza Express Dean Street
Larry Goldings / Peter Bernstein / Bill Stewart – Perpetual Pendulum (Pizza Express Dean Street, 4 March 2023. Second House. Live review by Gabriel Taylor) It’s often the case that the musicians […]
Clown Core (Louis Cole and Sam Gendel) at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam
Clown Core (Bimhuis, Amsterdam. 3 March 2023, 2nd night of 3. Live review by AJ Dehany) Any Dutch music festival is just one pumpkin away from a brain-melting musical aneurysm. At Rewire […]
Run Logan Run at Sage Gateshead
Run Logan Run at Sage Two (Sage Gateshead, Sage Two, 18 February. Review by AJ Dehany) Run Logan Run, the longstanding duo of Andrew Hayes and Matt Brown, can certainly play. To […]
Tim Garland and Jason Rebello – ‘Life to Life’
Tim Garland and Jason Rebello – Life to Life (Whirlwind Recordings – WR4799. Album review by Jon Turney) Duos don’t come better matched than this partnership. Tim Garland and Jason Rebello have […]
Peter Brötzmann, Jason Adasiewicz, John Edwards, Steve Noble at Cafe OTO
Peter Brötzmann, Jason Adasiewicz, John Edwards, Steve Noble(Cafe OTO, 2-day residency 10-11 February 2023. Live review and drawings by Geoff Winston) After humbly letting the Cafe OTO audience know that “It’s a […]
Beats & Pieces Big Band at Symphony Hall Birmingham
Beats & Pieces Big Band (Symphony Hall, Birmingham. 8 February 2023. Review and photos by John Watson) A second night of big band jazz brought more joy to fans of large ensembles […]
