Avishai Cohen Trio with Roni Kaspi and Guy Moskovich. (Théatre Maisonneuve. 30 June 2023. Review by Sebastian Scotney*) How rare it is for a side-woman or sideman to receive her or his […]
(Montreal. 29 June 2023. Round-up by Sebastian Scotney*) The team at the festival told me they were expecting that the Montréalais would be out in big numbers this year in search of […]
Last November, the Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra (TLJO) spent three nights celebrating the 85th birthday of composer/arranger Mike Gibbs (reviewed by Patrick Hadfield) as part of the 2022 EFG London Jazz Festival. […]
Jacob Collier (Tollwood Summer Festival, Olympiapark, Munich. 27 June 2023. Review in English (*) and German and photos by Ralf Dombrowski) Jacob Collier is on a quest. And he has decided to […]
Rossini Re-loaded – Mike Westbrook & The Uncommon Orchestra (Ronnie Scott’s . 13 June 2023. Live review by Richard Lee) Actually…no. I’m not going to review this wonderful gig. It’s already had […]
KOKOROKO (Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre’s Meltdown, 14 June 2023. Review by Leah Williams) Fresh from a trip down in Devon writing material for their next album, KOKOROKO admitted they’d not actually […]
Andy Moor / Genevieve Murphy (duo) and Thermal (John Butcher / Andy Moor / Thomas Lehn) (Cafe Oto, 9 June 2023; review and drawings by Geoff Winston) This Cafe Oto evening was, […]
Jazzdor Strasbourg- Berlin-Dresden (Kulturbrauerei, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. 9 June 2023. Fourth and final night. Report by Sebastian Scotney) The fourth and final night in of the Berlin programme of Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin-Dresden 2023 […]
Jazzdor Strasbourg- Berlin-Dresden (Kulturbrauerei, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. 8 June 2023. Third night. Report by Sebastian Scotney) Last night, the third evening of the fifteenth Jazzdor festival in Berlin, I found myself above […]
Ben Sidran (Ronnie Scott’s. 6 June 2023. Live review by Adam Sieff) It’s been a year since Ben Sidran last played at Ronnie Scott’s, and following a rousing introduction from the club’s […]
Jazzdor Strasbourg- Berlin-Dresden (Kulturbrauerei in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. 7 June 2023. Second night. Report by Sebastian Scotney) As reviewers we should obviously be tryinh to reach clear conclusions. Sometimes, when hearing something […]
Jazzdor Strasbourg- Berlin-Dresden (Kulturbrauerei in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. 6 June 2023. First night. Report by Sebastian Scotney) I had it all planned…down to the last detail. Jazzdor Berlin-Dresden this year, the 15th […]
Evan Parker – Solo concert to mark Galerie Max Hetzier’s exhibition of Thomas Struth’s CERN-inspired photographs (St James’s Church, Piccadilly, 1 June 2023. Review by Oliver Weindling. Drawings by Geoff Winston) Evan […]
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers – World of the Gods (The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 28 May 2023. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) Little over a month after the […]
Black Lives Generation to Generation (Ronnie Scott’s . 25 May 2023. First house. Review by Sebastian Scotney) There is music and there is message. First the music, then. At Ronnie Scott’s, the […]
