Django Bates’ Belovèd(Ronnie Scott’s. 30 January 2018. Review by AJ Dehany) Django Bates’ Belovèd trio could be characterised as a left-of-leftfield postmodern standards trio exploring, celebrating, and deconstructing Bird and Bill Evans… […]
Brot & Sterne (Franz Hautzinger, Matthias Loibner, Peter Rosmanith) (Jazzit:Musik:Club Salzburg, 14 January 2018. Review/feature by AJ Dehany)Obeying a wanderlust born of a lack of inner resources, I found myself on the jazz […]
Board outside the club for the second night of the Beats & Pieces ResidencyREVIEW: Beats & Pieces Big Band + Johnny Hunter Quartet (Ronnie Scott’s, 1 January 2018. First night of a […]
Wishful Eggheads answerIn this, the fourth and final year-end list, London Jazz News’ friends – musicians, writers and promoters – look into 2018 and share their hopes and dreams. You can add […]
In this third of our four year-end lists, a wide range of jazz people – musicians, writers, promoters – named and proclaimed their recorded sounds of the year. You can add your […]
Volker Goetze QuintetPhoto credit: Alison BentleyIn 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 the […]
Mica ParisAhead 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 in […]
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 ClubAJ Dehany visited the Hampstead Lounge & Jazz Club and spoke to owner Steve Coxshall about his aspirations to make the venue the […]
Kristjan Järvi conducting Stories of the DanubePhoto credit: John Watson/jazzcamera.co.ukJoe Zawinul’s Stories of the Danube + Terence Blanchard Quintet(Barbican. 19 November 2017. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by AJ Dehany, with footnotes!) […]
Pharaoh SandersPhoto credit: Mick DestinoA 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 triple bill […]
Liudas Mockunas of Heavy BeautyPhoto credit: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.ukWith 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 other […]
“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 IrensNaima(Hampstead Lounge & Jazz Club. 12 November 2017. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by AJ Dehany)It has been said (by […]
Tom Millar QuartetPhoto Credit: Monika S. JakubowskaPianist TOM MILLAR is inspired by people and travel, writes AJ Dehany.No sooner had Tom Millar jumped off the plane from Switzerland than we were in […]
