Candles at St. Cyprian’s The series of Tuesday early evening concerts which innovative promoter Christine Allen puts on at St Cyprian’s Church is one of the joys of the London scene. It […]

Congratulations to Dominic McGonigall of PPL who is a very effective campaigner on behalf of the music industry on a victory in Brussels last week, getting the EU to back copyright extension […]

This extraordinary-looking gentleman, equipped with his megaphone, his pen and astonishing uplift, may be about to rescue the festival and the De Werf venue in Bruges, according to optimistic noises coming from […]

Kind of Blue: Recorded March 2nd and April 6th, 1959Giant Steps: Recorded May 4th and 5th, 1959. It does seem like a very weird idea indeed, as Ben Ratliff of the New […]

Pizza on the Park* Promoter Anthony Steinberg tells me he has booked Pizza on The Park for a charity soul gig raising money for the British Kidney Patient Association and other charities […]

Hungarian Cultural Centre, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden13th February 2009 My preview HERE was very long. So the review can and will be short. I enjoyed Fabian’s gig, and will definitely want to […]

In 2008, a long list of jazz musicians passed away. And among them we lost two who were also superb presenters of jazz on radio. Both of these men had helped jazz […]

Somebody told me at a dinner party: “Creativity is the answer to the question: Who am I?” and that “Culture is the answer to the question : Who are we?” But across […]

Where should one go to hear jazz tomorrow, Valentine’s day? Apart from the Vortex, it definitely seems to be singers’ night… I had singled out the Claire Martin/ Richard Rodney Bennett gig […]

Stan Sulzmann (Photo: Gary Corbett) The gig is on March 17th at the Guildhall School of Music next to the Barbican Centre. Admission is free. It features Gwilym Simcock and Stan Sulzmann […]

King Prawn Dhansak (In The Dark) The alto player next to me in the rehearsal band and and I watch the world – and forests of seemingly unplayable semiquavers- go by, and […]

Cy Laurie Peter Maguire of Jazz Clubs Worldwide in Brussels now has a blog where he is getting all dewy-eyed nostalgic for an era when British jazz was supposedly fuelled by “nothing […]

Ingrid Laubrock. whose quartet gig tonight at “The Others” is on the Late Arrivals board at http://www.jazzinlondon.net/ A Tall Story Lucky people arriving on Eurostar into London …… ….to spend our bombed-out […]

Jazz in Bruges : Under Threat There is a new Petition to save De Werf in Bruges/ Belgium ,an important club on the circuit. The Bruges Jazz Festival which has featured eg […]

Bobo Stenson In the trio context you know what to expect from Bobo Stenson. That right hand, crystalline, bright, dominating. It leads, it takes responsibility for the line, the narrative. Stenson sets […]