Kamasi Washington at CheltenhamPhoto credit: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk Kamasi Washington(Big Top, 6 May 2018, Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Peter Jones) “The biggest name in jazz” is a hell of a billing […]
Tom Ibarra at CheltenhamPhoto by Peter Jones Tom Ibarra (Free Stage, 5 May 2018, Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Peter Jones) One of the chief pleasures of Cheltenham, in common with other jazz […]
Lucia Cadotsch at the ParabolaPhoto credit: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk Enemy, Cadotsch/Sandjo, Trondheim Exchange, Mitchener/Hawkins, Vein/Sulzmann(Parabola Arts Centre, 2018 Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Round-up by Peter Slavid) Cheltenham Jazz Festival has many different faces […]
Clare Teal with Kansas Smitty’sPhoto credit: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk Kansas Smitty’s House Band feat. Clare Teal (Town Hall, 5 May 2018, Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Peter Jones) In Hackney’s Broadway Market, […]
Roller Trio in the ParabolaPhoto credit: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk Roller Trio(Parabola Arts Centre, 5 May 2018, Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Mary James) “It’s great to be back!” said James Mainwaring towards […]
Bob Dorough, Simon Wallace and Sarah MoulePhoto supplied BOB DOROUGH (1923-2018) passed away on 23 April at his home in Pennsylvania at the age of 94. Most widely known for his role […]
Donny McCaslin in the Jazz ArenaPhoto credit: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk Donny McCaslin(Jazz Arena, 6 May 2018, Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Mike Collins) Above the Jazz Arena stage were large strips of […]
Christian McBride at CheltenhamPhoto credit: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk Christian McBride Big Band(Town Hall, 6 May 2018, Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Jon Turney) Seventeen players on the stand. Catchy hooks, grooves, and […]
Yazz Ahmed, Helena Kay and Tori Freestone with Interchange at the ParabolaPhoto credit: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk Issie Barratt’s Interchange(Parabola Theatre, 6 May 2018, Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Mike Collins) Sometimes it’s […]
Laura JurdPhoto taken at Kings Place by Monica S. Jakubowska Dinosaur (Parabola Arts Centre, 4 May 2018, Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Peter Jones) Cheltenham Jazz Festival director Ian George commented during […]
A major Bonn landmark, the Post Towerilluminated during Jazz Fest Bonn 2017Photo © Deutsche Post DHL Group, reproduced with their permission Jazzfest Bonn was the focus of a press trip for journalists […]
Moses Boyd in 2012Photo by Ben Amure Moses Boyd’s Exodus(Jazz Arena, 5 May 2018, Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Review by Mike Collins) “It’s a long time since I did a gig this early,” […]
Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan at Cheltenham 2018Photo credit and © John Watson/ jazzcamera.co.uk Bill Frisell/Thomas Morgan; Jason Moran Bandwagon(Town Hall. Cheltenham Jazz Festival. 6 May 2018. Reviews by Jon Turney) You […]
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 […]
