Black Top with Xhosa Cole (Parabola Arts Centre. 29 April. Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Peter Slavid) Black Top is the improvising duo of Pat Thomas on piano and effects, with Orphy […]
Black Top with Xhosa Cole at 2023 Cheltenham Jazz Fest
John Pope Quintet – Live Album Recording in Newcastle upon Tyne
John Pope Quintet – Live Album Recording (Star & Shadow Cinema, Tyneside – 17-18 April 2023- John Pope, Faye MacCalman, Graham Hardy, Jamie Stockbridge, Johnny Hunter. Live review by AJ Dehany) John […]
Emil Viklický – Songbook feat. Imogen Ryall & Julian Nicholas at the 606
Emil Viklický – Songbook featuring Imogen Ryall & Julian Nicholas (606 Club. 27 April 2023. Live review and photos by Charles Rees) Czech pianist/composer Emil Viklický has enjoyed a successful career over […]
Gwilym Simcock and SNJO at Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
Gwilym Simcock and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – Release (Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 27 April 2023 – Live review by Mark McKergow) Pianist and composer Gwilym Simcock arrives in Scotland with an […]
Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya at Cafe Oto
Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya (Cafe Oto, 15 April 2023; review and live drawings by Geoff Winston) An 11am sound check set up Phill Niblock’s afternoon concert at Cafe Oto perfectly, ensuring […]
Tony Dudley-Evans’s 80th Birthday Celebration in Birmingham
Oliver Weindling writes: Tony Dudley-Evans celebrated his 80th birthday at Symphony Hall in Birmingham on Saturday afternoon 8 April, with a stellar bringing-together of many of the musicians whom he has encouraged […]
Lonnie Holley at Royal Academy of Arts and Cafe Oto
Lonnie Holley (Royal Academy of Arts, 17 March 2023; Cafe Oto, 18 March 2023; review and drawings by Geoff Winston) Lonnie Holley played two sold-out concerts in London in March, each to […]
‘Burt Bacharach: A Tribute from Ronnie Scott’s on BBC TWO
Sebastian writes: BBC TWO has just transmitted a night of Burt Bacharach’s music recorded at Ronnie Scott’s three months before the great songwriter’s death. This is not so much of a review, […]
Bergamo Jazz 2023. Part 2.
This is the second of Sebastian’s two reports on the 2023 Bergamo Jazz Festival (*) I had never been to the city of Bergamo, the backdrop and setting for the Bergamo Jazz […]
Bergamo Jazz 2023. Part 1.
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 […]
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 […]
