Matt Ridley – The Antidote(Ubuntu Music UBU0068. CD review by Graham Spry) Familiar to jazz enthusiasts for having played double bass with many of the country’s best ensembles, it’s also probably fair […]
Matt Ridley – ‘The Antidote’
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021 (31. ‘Johnny Come Lately’ – Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy, Sempre Amore, 1986)
The 31st of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) sees an Ellington tune polished to a new lustre. The pianist and soprano saxophone player here were both immensely fertile artists. Yet something […]
A Celebration of Keith Tippett (various venues, Bristol, 1-2 October)
The unfailingly creative pianist and composer Keith Tippett, who died last Summer, worked in a remarkable range of styles and settings over 50 years of music-making. So the idea of an event […]
Saadet Türköz & Beat Keller – ‘We Are Strong’
Saadet Türköz & Beat Keller – We Are Strong(Chinabot label, available on download and cassette. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Saadet Türköz is the daughter of Kazakh parents who were expelled from the East […]
20 composers share £½ million Paul Hamlyn awards
Jazz musicians Cassie Kinoshi, Soweto Kinch, Yazz Ahmed and Tim Garland are among composers each receiving Paul Hamlyn awards of £25,000 with no strings attached. Peter Bacon reports: The Paul Hamlyn Foundation […]
Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2021 winners announced
Singers Norma Winstone MBE, Georgia Mancio and Claire Martin, drummer Jas Kayser and saxophonist Nubya Garcia are among the recipients of the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2021, announced in an online presentation streamed […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021 (30. Chicago Breakdown. ‘Air’. From ’80° Below ’82’ (1982))
The 30th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections finds a great Chicagoan injecting new life into an appropriate Jelly Roll Morton classic. The opening track on this wonderful LP is Henry Threadgill’s homage […]
Stan Tracey Quartet/Big Brass – ‘From Stan, With Love’ (1967-8)
Stan Tracey Quartet/Big Brass – From Stan, With Love (Resteamed Records 2CD set – Album review by Mark McKergow) This double CD features glorious jazz from the early heyday of pianist Stan Tracey’s long career. […]
Samara Joy – ‘Samara Joy’
Samara Joy – Samara Joy(Whirlwind Recordings WR4776. Album review by Adam Sieff) There have been plenty of good things written about the 21- year-old New Yorker Samara Joy since she won the […]
Dan Nicholls– ‘Mattering and Meaning’
Dan Nicholls – Mattering and Meaning (We Records. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Dan Nicholls is one of the finest graduates from the jazz course at Birmingham Conservatoire, and arguably the best ever! […]
Jim Hall: Ten Tracks I Can’t Live Without…by Mike Rud
In the latest of our series in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, Canadian guitarist Mike Rud (*) writes about […]
Kim Cypher (Ronnie Scott’s, 1 August 2021)
Dreams can come true. Ten years ago, Cheltenham-based saxophonist / vocalist / composer Kim Cypher and her husband (and drummer in her band) Mike, abandoned stable jobs as primary school Head of […]
Michael Mantler: ‘Coda – Orchestral Suites’
Michael Mantler: Coda – Orchestral Suites(ECM. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Michael Mantler, the composer and trumpet player from Austria, has brought out two albums on the ECM label in which he looks back at and […]
Jazz at the Oxford (Kentish Town) is Back from 2 August
Will Arnold-Forster has just been in touch about the resumption of Monday night gigs to restricted audiences at the Oxford Tavern in Kentish Town The programme for the first few weeks is […]
Love Supreme’s ‘Love You Live’ Podcast Series Reaches Episode 6 (Gary Bartz)
Love Supreme Festival is looking forward to putting on a festival in Summer 2022. In the meantime it has launched a successful Love You Live podcast series. The first episode was put […]
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