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 […]
INTERVIEW: Tom Millar
REVIEW: Soft Machine at St John’s Farncombe
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 […]
INTERVIEW: Reid Anderson of The Bad Plus (Jazz Cafe, 24 November)
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 […]
PREVIEW: Reviewers’ pick of the EFG London Jazz Festival
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 […]
REVIEW: GoGo Penguin: Koyaanisqatsi at the Barbican
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 […]
REPORT: De Beren Gieren (Sofar Session) and Elliot Galvin/Tom Herbert/Corrie Dick (Oliver’s Jazz Bar)
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 […]
ROUND-UP REVIEW: Match & Fuse Festival, Zürich (28-30 September 2017)
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 […]
FEATURE / INTERVIEW: Lucia Cadotsch
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. […]
CD REVIEW: The Free Poetics of Henrique Eisenmann
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 […]
REVIEW: Binker & Moses at the Margate Jazz Festival
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 […]
INTERVIEW: Francesco Tristano – Piano Circle Songs (UK premiere RFH on 20 Sept)
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. […]
REVIEW: Grime Reworked SEN3 – Boy In Da Corner at Birthdays, Dalston
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 […]
REVIEW: Alina Bzhezhinska Quartet plays Alice Coltrane at the Vortex
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 […]
REVIEW: PROM 53 – Beneath the Underdog – Charles Mingus Revisited
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
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 […]
