
Tom Millar QuartetPhoto Credit: Monika S. Jakubowska Pianist TOM MILLAR is inspired by people and travel, writes AJ Dehany. No sooner had Tom Millar jumped off the plane from Switzerland than we […]
Tom Millar QuartetPhoto Credit: Monika S. Jakubowska Pianist TOM MILLAR is inspired by people and travel, writes AJ Dehany. No sooner had Tom Millar jumped off the plane from Switzerland than we […]
John Etheridge at St John’s Farncombe Soft Machine(St John’s Farncombe. 2 November 2017. Review by AJ Dehany) To say Soft Machine are underrated would be an overstatement. Their arcane line-up history can […]
Reid AndersonPhoto: The Bad Plus website Trio The Bad Plus are playing their final tour with pianist Ethan Iverson before he is replaced by Orrin Evans. Bass player REID ANDERSON spoke to […]
The EFG London Jazz Festival (Friday 10 to Sunday 19 November) can be overwhelming in its vastness. Faced with all this choice, are you paralysed with indecision? Or perhaps just keen to […]
The demolition of the Pruitt–Igoe housing project, St. Louis, MO,an early scene to be filmed for Koyaanisqatsi. Photo credit: U.S. Department of Housing/ Public Domain GoGo Penguin: Koyaanisqatsi (Barbican. 11 October 2017. Review by […]
Setting the scene for De Beren Gieren’sSofar Session AJ Dehany reports on a two-gig night in Greenwich: De Beren Gieren were performing a Sofar session and Elliot Galvin/Tom Herbert/Corrie Dick were at […]
Isabel Sörling of FarvelPhoto credit: Roshni Gorur Match & Fuse Festival, Zürich (Moods and EXIL. 28-30 September 2017. Review by AJ Dehany) Match & Fuse is a European touring network that ‘matches’ bands […]
Lucia CadotschPhoto credit: Wanja Slavin LUCIA CADOTSCH’s Speak Low and Speak Low Renditions put her uniquely modern stamp on the standards. Lucia won the 2017 ECHO Jazz Award 2017 for best vocalist. […]
The Free Poetics of Henrique Eisenmann (Red Piano Records rpr14599-4429. CD review by AJ Dehany) “Why ‘Free Poetics’?” asks Henrique Eisenmann. “Well, music can be made with rules, form and technique. But […]
Moses Boyd (R) and Binker GoldingPhoto credit: MJF17 REVIEW: Binker & Moses(Olby’s Soul Cafe & Music Rooms, Margate. 23 September 2017. Margate Jazz Festival. Review by AJ Dehany) The perfect remedy for […]
Francesco TristanoPhoto credit: Marie Staggsr Luxembourg-born musician FRANCESCO TRISTANO’s new album Piano Circle Songs marks a return to piano music, after his recent work in techno. The CD features collaborations with Chilly Gonzales. […]
L-R: Max O’Donnell, Saleem Raman, Lamar Ita, Rocco Palladino, Charlie Platt REVIEW: Grime Reworked: SEN3 – Boy In Da Corner(Birthdays, Dalston. Review by AJ Dehany) A jazz group playing grime should seem […]
Tony Kofi, Alina Bzhezhinska and Larry BartleyPhoto credit: Mustafa Gold Alina Bzhezhinska Quartet(Vortex, 28 August 2017. Review by AJ Dehany) Increasingly regarded as a musical and spiritual visionary, for Alice Coltrane there […]
Leo Pellegrino and the Metropole Orkest at Prom 53Photo Copyright: BBC/ Mark Allan REVIEW: Prom 53: Beneath the Underdog: Charles Mingus Revisited(Royal Albert Hall. 24 August 2017. Review by AJ Dehany) “I […]
CD REVIEW: Adam Fairhall – Friendly Ghosts (Efpi Records. Review by AJ Dehany) Adam Fairhall is a great example of an outside player who plays inside. Raised in Cornwall and resident in […]