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, […]
Enzo Zirilli’s ZiroBop – Ten Past Never (Ubuntu Music UBU0128. Review by Bruce Lindsay) Enzo Zirilli, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Rob Luft and Alessandro Chiappetta form the quartet known as ZiroBop and provide its […]
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series Set 11: – 6 CDs – Black Diamond Express (MSESET11. Album Review by Chris Parker) Disc 1: Blues Piano Disc 2: Kokomo Arnold Disc 3: Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 1 […]
Photographer Melody McLaren was at the Jazz Cafe, completely packed with a young audience to see the launch of “Faithful One” (Whirlwind Recordings), with support from Oreglo and GW Jazz. Melody photographed […]
Matt Mitchell: Oblong Aplomb (Out Of Your Head Records OOYH 019. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Oblong Aplomb is a double album on the innovative, Brooklyn and Richmond, Virginia-based Out Of Your Head Records; it […]
Alex Koo – Etudes for Piano (W.E.R.F Records. Album review by Dick Hovenga (*) ) Flanders has a decades-long history of producing exceptionally good musicians, particularly in jazz. There are too many […]
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 […]
Ingrid Laubrock – The Last Quiet Place (Pyroclastic Records PR24. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Since relocating to New York from London, Ingrid Laubrock has created an impressive body of work. If […]
Antti Lötjönen and Quintet East, Circus/ Citadel We Jazz Records WJCD49 (CD review by Mike Collins) Antii Lötjönen’s Quintet East is something of a super group, drawing its personnel from the most […]
Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani – Les Égarés (ACT 9965-2. Album review by Jon Turney) The concept here intrigues. Marvellously expressive French soprano sax specialist Émile Parisien and accordion virtuoso Vincent Peirani have […]
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 […]
Nigel Price and Alban Claret – Entente Cordiale (Elsden Music EM05 – CD review by Mark McKergow) Nigel Price leads another storming twin-guitar session in this collaboration with French-born Alban Claret. They […]
