Van Morrison in 2015Photo credit: ArtSiegel/ Creative Commons Van Morrison(Cheltenham Jazz Festival. 3 May 2018. Review by Alison Bentley) ‘I just feel like I’m a singer – not in any category. But […]
Kurt Elling – The Questions (Okeh 88985492832. CD review by Peter Bacon) You have to admire a singer’s courage when not only does he begin an album unaccompanied but with the relentlessly repetitious […]
‘Swanage has got to be somewhere around here…’ Phronesis should find it by 14 JulyPublicity picture Nigel Price has packed a lot in to his first Swanage Jazz Festival. Peter Bacon reports: It […]
Ambrose Akinmusire at Espoo in Finland earlier in this European tourPhoto credit: Ralf Dombrowski Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet (Stadtgarten, Cologne. 2 May 2016. Review by Sebastian Scotney)The Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet really is a coherent […]
Kit Downes – Obsidian(ECM 5782651. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Kit Downes is one of Britain’s more eclectic jazz pianists: part of the electronic band Troyka, equally at home leading his own trio or […]
Joanna Wallfisch at Sofar Sounds (before going fully acoustic) Joanna Wallfisch (Sofar Sounds at Folklore Hoxton, 29 April 2018. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Trying to call the significant turning-points as artists develop […]
Erik Thormod Halvorsen Sextet – Social Call (Losen LOS189-2. CD Review by Peter Jones) It’s a truism, but jazz musicians usually set out to impress with their recordings. There may be funny […]
Harlington Manorfrom the Harlington Manor website Peter Bacon reports: They’re claiming it will be the UK’s first fully vegan jazz festival. It’s called the Jazzeco Boutique Jazz Festival and it’s all happening […]
Bokani Dyer Trio – Neo Native (DyerTribe DYCD008. CD Review by Jon Turney) The internet makes music elsewhere easier to follow from a distance, and it’s been fascinating to get glimpses of several […]
Stryjo at JazzArtPhoto credit: © Enrico Bettinello Katowice JazzArt Festival(Various venues, 26-30 April 2018. Report by Tony Dudley-Evans) The JazzArt in Katowice in the south of Poland may not be the largest […]
100 metronomes in the Round Reading RoomDrawing by Geoff Winston. © 2018. All Rights Reserved Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomesBritish Museum, 28 April 2018. Review and drawing by Geoff Winston) The […]
Sara ColmanPublicity picture Singer, pianist and songwriter SARA COLMAN has a new album, What We’re Made Of, out on Stoney Lane Records later this year. But before that, Sara and her new […]
Jesse van Ruller, David Lyttle, Conor Chaplin Jesse van RullerOliver’s Jazz Bar, Greenwich 28 April 2018. 2nd of 2 nights. Review by Alison Bentley) For the superb Dutch guitarist Jesse van Ruller […]
Beady BellePhoto credit: Egil Hansen Norwegian singer and songwriter Beady Belle (real name Beate S. Lech) has recently released an album entitled Dedication and will be at Ronnie Scott’s this Sunday May […]
Keyon HarroldPublicity picture supplied Tickets go on sale today for the 2018 Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival. Peter Bacon reports: Edinburgh is bringing out some of jazz’s big guns for its 40th […]
