Kyle Eastwood – Cinematic (Jazz Village. CD review by Rob Mallows) A jazz album of some of cinema’s classic soundtracks from Kyle Eastwood. There is a sort of divine inevitability that the […]
Kyle Eastwood – Cinematic
Boptet and Steve Fishwick Nonet at BOPFEST (2019 EFG LJF)
Boptet and Steve Fishwick Nonet (Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Bar. 23 November 2019. BOPFEST/EFG LJF. Review by Frank Griffith) Much flying Bopster-ity and beyond was to be heard during the seven days of […]
Steve Beresford and Mandhira de Saram at Burley Fisher Books (BOTH AND exhibition)
Steve Beresford and Mandhira de Saram at BOTH AND exhibition, Burley Fisher Books, 24 November 2019. Report and drawings by Geoff Winston As part of our BOTH AND exhibition, and serendipitously coinciding […]
First names announced for 2020 Love Supreme (3-5 July)
Peter Bacon reports: The first names to be announced for the 2020 Love Supreme Jazz Festival, as usual at Glynde in East Sussex and next year over the weekend of Friday 3 […]
Led Bib at The Rio Cinema (2019 EFG LJF)
Led Bib (The Rio Cinema, 24 November 2019, EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Patrick Hadfield) A Sunday afternoon at the movies, as Led Bib premiered their latest project – providing the […]
RIP Roy Willox (1929-2019)
Sebastian writes: We are sad to hear of the death yesterday of alto saxophonist Roy Willox at the age of 90. Roy was involved in countless studio and big band sessions. Colleagues […]
Evan Parker at Bates Mill Blending Shed (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival)
Evan Parker at 75 (Bates Mill Blending Shed, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 24 November 2019. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This concert celebrated Evan Parker’s 75th birthday of last April and his long association […]
Jazzmeia Horn/Scottish National Jazz Orchestra at Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Jazzmeia Horn/Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – The Artistry of Jazzmeia Horn (Usher Hall, Edinburgh. 24 November 2019. Review by Mark McKergow) Jazz vocalist extraordinary Jazzmeia Horn raised the roof of Edinburgh’s Usher […]
We Also Heard… mini-reviews from the 2019 EFG London Jazz Festival
Sebastian writes: LondonJazz News provides the most comprehensive coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. This year we have around 40 full length reviews. And yet… we are not covering more than […]
Lorne Lofsky Quartet with Lauren Bush (2019 EFG LJF)
Lorne Lofsky Quartet with Lauren Bush – The Chet Stream (Pizza Express Dean Street. EFG London Jazz Festival. 24 November 2019. Review by Frank Griffith) Legendary Canadian guitarist Lorne Lofsky was making his first visit to […]
Swingin’ with Strings at Cadogan Hall (2019 EFG LJF)
Swingin’ with Strings (Cadogan Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival 24 November 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) This year’s London Jazz Festival may well have been the biggest and best to date. Let the […]
Bau.Haus.Klang at the Barbican; Bang/Calvert at Kings Place (2019 EFG LJF)
Bau.Haus.Klang (1st set – Michael Wollny, piano; Wolfgang Heisig, programmed piano; Émile Parisien, soprano sax; Leafcutter John, electronics; Max Stadtfeld, bass) (Barbican Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival, 24 November 2019.) Battleship Potemkin […]
Vanessa Rubin featuring Danny Grissett (2019 EFG LJF)
Vanessa Rubin featuring Danny Grissett (Pizza Pheasantry. 23 November 2019. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Alison Bentley) “Every night, I stand up here on the shoulders of every singer that has […]
Gateshead Jazz line-up announced (20-22 Mar 2020, booking opens 27 Nov)
Peter Bacon reports: Should you be suffering from jazz festival withdrawal, help is at hand… from Wednesday you can book for next March’s Gateshead Jazz weekend at Sage Gateshead. The press release […]
Jazz Generation: BBC Concert Orchestra, Matthew Barley, etc (2019 EFG LJF)
Jazz Generation: Matthew Barley, Omar Puente, Peter Edwards, BBC Concert Orchestra, Nu Civilisation Orchestra, StringTing. Conducted by Michael Seal and Edwards. Music by Misha Mullov-Abbado, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Bramwell Tovey (Queen Elizabeth Hall, […]
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