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 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 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 (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 […]
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 (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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 (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 (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, 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 (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 (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 (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 […]
