KUU! – Artificial Sheep album launch (Kammerspiele, Munich. 21 October 2021. Live review and photos by Ralf Dombrowski(*)) The theatre really is the right place for KUU! This band has a love […]
Chris Potter, Craig Taborn & Nasheet Waits (PizzaExpress Jazz Club, 22 October 2021. Second of two nights. First and second houses. Live Review by Charles Rees) Performing without bass is a familiar […]
Marcin Wasilewski Trio – En attendant (ECM 2677. CD review by Mike Collins) It’s twenty years since the Marcin Wasilewski Trio debuted with ECM, on the first of a series of albums […]
Rob Adams writes: Robin Morton was a hugely influential figure on the folk and traditional music scene in Scotland and across the world, and yet if he’d followed his initial musical dream, […]
Fiona Ross – Red Flags and High Heels Singer and pianist Fiona Ross returns with an album of fourteen new tracks on which she takes composition, production, and arrangement credits. Ross was […]
Lionel Loueke – Close Your Eyes (Sounderscore SO 005. Album Review by Sebastian Scotney) There is so much to enjoy in Close Your Eyes, guitarist Lionel Loueke’s first ever album of standards, […]
Pittsburgh-born bassist Richie Goods has a massive and varied experience and discography: the Headhunters, Lenny White, Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band, Milt Jackson, Russell Malone, Vincent Herring, the Manhattan […]
Vilnius Jazz Festival (15 to 17 October 2021) Report by Tony Dudley-Evans The Vilnius Jazz Festival has a strong focus on free jazz and improvised music, and has built a sizeable audience […]
Vimala Rowe (Spice of Life. Monday lunchtime All-Star Series. 18 October 2021. Review by Romy Summers) This was the third of the All-Star Monday lunchtime sessions at the Spice of Life (LJN […]
Singer and writer Nishla Smith is about to launch her debut album, Friends with Monsters (Whirlwind Recordings). She ” is a natural storyteller” and the album is “a set of inventive narratives […]
Esbe is a London-based singer, composer, producer, artist and multi-instrumentalist. She studied classical guitar at the Royal Academy of Music. Her background is North African, Middle Eastern, British and Jewish. She has […]
Saxophonist Tim Whitehead has always been an instigator of projects. The former member of Loose Tubes, of Ian Carr’s Nucleus, Morrissey Mullen, Jim Mullen’s Meantime… has often provided the energy to make […]
The 42nd of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features a memorably different saxophone sound. Charlie Haden’s Quartet West project produced a series of albums that were love letters to LA, and its mid-century […]
Matthew Stevens – Pittsburgh (Whirlwind Recordings. Album review by Rob Mallows) Matthew Stevens should fall off his bike more often. It’s not that I’m wishing any harm should come to the Canadian guitarist, […]
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (Impulse! Album review by John Bungey) Well, when time travel is invented, this gig at the Penthouse, Seattle, in 1965 will be near […]
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