Volker Goetze QuintetPhoto credit: Alison Bentley In the second of London Jazz News’ four year-end lists from a wide range of jazz people, musicians, writers, promoters name their favourite live moments of […]
Mica Paris Ahead of a five-date UK Valentine’s Tour and a new album, Mica Sings Ella, AJ Dehany interviewed MICA PARIS, a major presence on the UK music scene since first emerging […]
REVIEW: What Passing Bells (The War Poems of Wilfred Owen) — Penny Rimbaud, Liam Noble, Kate Shortt (The Vortex. 6 December 2017. Review by AJ Dehany) “My subject is War, and the […]
The trio Naima at the Hampstead Lounge & Jazz Club AJ Dehany visited the Hampstead Lounge & Jazz Club and spoke to owner Steve Coxshall about his aspirations to make the venue […]
Kristjan Järvi conducting Stories of the DanubePhoto credit: John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk Joe Zawinul’s Stories of the Danube + Terence Blanchard Quintet(Barbican. 19 November 2017. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by AJ Dehany, with […]
Pharaoh SandersPhoto credit: Mick Destino A Concert for Alice and John: Pharoah Sanders Quartet + Denys Baptiste Quartet + Alina Bzhezhinska Quartet(Barbican. 18 November 2017. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by AJ Dehany) A […]
Liudas Mockunas of Heavy BeautyPhoto credit: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk With around forty single-gig reviews of the EFG London Jazz Festival this year, LondonJazz News will again have provided more coverage of the festival than any […]
“The greatest interpreter of the songs Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen that I’ve ever seen”Barb Jungr with Simon Wallace (L) and Davide Mantovani (R) Hard rain: Barb Jungr sings Dylan and Cohen […]
Naima at Hampstead Lounge & Jazz ClubL-R:Enrique Ruiz, Oscar Cuchillo, Luis TorregrosaPhoto credit: Ina Irens Naima(Hampstead Lounge & Jazz Club. 12 November 2017. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by AJ Dehany) It has been […]
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 […]
