Donny McCaslin Quartet – I Want More (Edition Records EDNDA1219. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) For listeners familiar with Donny McCaslin’s work in his acoustic quartet, or in his key role as a soloist […]
Donny McCaslin Quartet – ‘I Want More’
Matt Choboter – ‘Postcards of Nostalgia’
Matt Choboter – Postcards of Nostalgia (ILK Music ILK344 LP/CD. Album review by Frank Graham) From Keith Tippett to Benoît Delbecq and Eve Risser, improvising pianists continue to find inspiration in John […]
Dan Forshaw: ‘Our Music in Paris’ PizzaExpress Jazz Club, Soho, 3 Aug)
“I’m passionate about trying to engage new people in the music, and that is what ‘Our Music in Paris’ is about: sharing a particular story of jazz focusing on Paris.” UK saxophonist […]
Louis Stewart & Noel Kelehan – ‘Some Other Blues’ (rec. 1977)
Louis Stewart & Noel Kelehan – Some Other Blues (Livia Records LRDC2301. Album review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Jazz albums featuring nothing but guitar and piano are such a rarity that until recently […]
Jacob Collier at the 2023 Tollwood Summer Festival in Munich
Jacob Collier (Tollwood Summer Festival, Olympiapark, Munich. 27 June 2023. Review in English (*) and German and photos by Ralf Dombrowski) Jacob Collier is on a quest. And he has decided to […]
Peter Brötzmann – Tribute by / Nachruf von Ralf Dombrowski
Here we publish a personal tribute to Peter Brötzmann by Munich jazz writer Ralf Dombrowski. First in English (*) and then Ralf’s original German. In sadness. Peter Brötzmann (6 March 1941 – […]
Jacob Young Trio – ‘Eventually’
Jacob Young Trio – Eventually (ECM Records, ECM 2764. Review by Graham Spry) Eventually is guitarist Jacob Young’s fourth album as a leader for ECM Records. Following previous recordings with ECM stalwarts […]
BBC Big Band with Elaine Delmar, Claire Martin, Ian Shaw, Jacqui Dankworth, Emma Smith: ‘The Art of Swing & Song’, Thu 13 July 2023
‘How often can you go to a concert and see five singers doing their thing with the best big band around?’ The BBC Big Band will take to the stage at Cadogan […]
Mondays With Morgan: Don Braden (new album ‘Earth Wind and Wonder Volume 2’)
Mondays With Morgan is a column in LondonJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves him – […]
Mothers In Jazz (48): Allana Goldsmith
“Mothers In Jazz” is a new series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry […]
The Nonidentical – ‘Material Tropes’
The Nonidentical – Material Tropes (NONID Records. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Material Tropes, the debut full album of the Nonidentical group led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Zac Gvi, is both thoughtful […]
Blossom Dearie – ‘Discover Who I Am: The Fontana Years London 1966-70’
Blossom Dearie – Discover Who I Am: The Fontana Years London 1966-70 (Fontana/ UMC- Mercury. Review of six-disc set by Lavender Sutton) Discover Who I Am, the new 6-disc release of Blossom […]
Reuben James – ‘Champagne Kisses’
Reuben James – Champagne Kisses (Rufio Records – album review by Mark McKergow) Vocalist and keyboardist Reuben James presents his debut album, an abundant and smartly-produced collection of jazz-flavoured soul/R&B soaked in […]
New fortnightly gig: ‘Jazz Mondays’ at the Fox in N13
Pianist/educator Simon Purcell has recently started “Jazz Mondays”, a new Monday gig with top jazz players at the Fox in Palmers Green. It is doing well. Simon is also a pro-active supporter […]
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell – ‘Old And New Dreams/ Gary Burton- ‘The New Quartet’ (on vinyl)
(ECM Luminessence series. Vinyl reviews by Phil Johnson) ECM’s new audiophile vinyl series follows up the inaugural releases (Kenny Wheeler and Nana Vasconcelos) with a second imaginatively matched pair, both albums again […]
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