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 […]
Samara Joy at the Jazz Cafe
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 […]
Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra at Birmingham Symphony Hall
Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra (Symphony Hall, Birmingham. 7 February 2023. Review and photos by John Watson) The Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra has won critical acclaim for the new album “Tales From The […]
Peter Urpeth and Evan Parker at Hundred Years Gallery
Peter Urpeth and Evan Parker (Hundred Years Gallery, 28 January 2023. Live Review and drawings by Geoff Winston) Poet Peter Urpeth and saxophonist Evan Parker go back a long way, some 40 […]
Wendy Kirkland Quartet at the 2023 Southport Jazz Festival
Wendy Kirkland Quartet featuring Dennis Rollins MBE – “Get Carter Reimagined” (The Grand Hotel, Southport. 4 February 2023. Southport Jazz Festival. Live review by Frank Griffith) Jazz fans in the North-West of the […]
Jerusalem Orchestra East & West at the Barbican
Jerusalem Orchestra East & West (Barbican Hall. 5 Feb 2023. Live review by Rachel Coombes) “I never thought that my trance music could happen with a classical orchestra. Because of these guys, […]
Loré Lixenberg and Denis Dufour at Cafe Oto
Loré Lixenberg and Denis Dufour (Cafe Oto, 15 January 2023. Review and drawings by Geoff Winston) Free-thinking mezzo soprano Loré Lixenberg, champion of contemporary opera and experimental music, was the prime mover […]
Alexander Hawkins and Roberto Ottaviano at Cafe Oto
Alexander Hawkins / Roberto Ottaviano (Cafe Oto, 20 January 2023; review and drawings by Geoff Winston) Acclaimed jazz pianist/composer, Alexander Hawkins, with master of the soprano saxophone, Roberto Ottaviano made for a […]
Sparks & Visions Festival, Regensburg, Germany. Part 2 – Nights 2 and 3
Sparks & Visions Festival 2023 (Theater Regensburg, Part 2 of review – Nights 2 and and 3. 28 and 29 January 2023. Review by Sebastian Scotney) There has been a great deal […]
Glebe with guest Tara Minton at the Spice of Life
Glebe with guest Tara Minton (Spice of Life. 26 January 2023. Review by Lavender Sutton) The members of the group Glebe have been playing together since they all studied music in Leeds […]
