Cross Currents Trio: Chris Potter, Zakir Hussain and Dave HollandPublicity picture The summer festival news is coming thick and fast. Peter Bacon tries to keep up: The 2018 edition of the Manchester […]
There’s an unusual evening at Cafe Posk in Ravenscourt Park when Polish pianist Kuba Stankiewicz plays the music of the Polish/Jewish composer Henryk Wars. Lesley Christiane will be producing the concert and […]
Bobo Stenson Trio 32nd April Jazz(Various locations in Espoo, Finland 25-29 April 2018. Report by Ralf Dombrowski*) Espoo is not far from Helsinki. The newly built suburban train line takes you there, […]
Peter Bacon reports: The full programme of the 2018 Glasgow Jazz Festival has just been announced and tickets went on sale at 12noon today, International Jazz Day. The festival has also announced […]
Norma Winstone – Descansado: Songs for Films (ECM 578 6989. CD Review by Jane Mann) This new CD is the fourth for ECM by acclaimed English vocalist Norma Winstone and her trio with […]
Maciek PyszPhoto Credit: Lisa Miniussi Guitarist MACIEK PYSZ is keeping intensely and productively busy musically, with a new solo CD on the horizon and an imminent tour with Gianluca Corona. Even before […]
Krzysztof Slomkowski and Piotr Checki of Algorhythm Photo credit: Monika S. Jakubowska Algorhythm are a young quintet from Gdansk in Poland. They performed at Jazz Café POSK on Saturday 21 April. Peter […]
John Surman with Nelson Ayres and Rob Waring – Invisible Threads (ECM. ECM 2588. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) John Surman has teamed up with expat-American percussionist Rob Waring and Brazilian pianist […]
Mark Guiliana at the CBSO CentrePhoto credit: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet(CBSO Centre, Birmingham, 27 April 2018. Review and photos by John Watson) There is frequently a single element that […]
Trumpeter Johnny Woodham with Alfa Mistand bassist/vocalist Kaya Thomas-Dyke Alfa Mist(Ghost Notes, Peckham, 26 April 2018. Review and iPhone snaps by Leah Williams.) Ghost Notes, a new music venue and bar that […]
Keith Tippett acknowledging applause at the2015 Berlin Jazz Festival Friends of Keith Tippett are rallying round after a heart attack and complications… – Hazel Miller writes Dear Ogun Friends around the world, I […]
Louis Armstrong and his wife Lucille pose in front of the Sphinx near Cairo, Egypt in 1961.Courtesy of the Louis Armstrong House Museum A new film is to be screened on BBC4, […]
Anton EgerPhoto Credit: Monika S. Jakubowska Anton Eger(Vortex, 25 April 2018. Photos by Monika S. Jakubowska. Words by AJ Dehany) Drummer Anton Eger is one third of the mighty Phronesis with Jasper […]
J FriscoPublicity picture The second DJAZZ Festival continues to ring the changes. Peter Bacon reports: In its first year in 2017, the Durham City Jazz Festival, DJAZZ (the D is silent as […]
A montage of photos of Grand Union Orchestra’s Trading RootsPhoto supplied by GUO “My admiration for the work of the Grand Union Orchestra and its leader Tony Haynes continues to grow,” writes […]
