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 […]
‘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 […]
