Mark Kavuma – The Banger Factory (Ubuntu Music UBU0028. CD review by Paul Kelly) What does it take to keep a well-trodden medium fresh? Is instrumental prowess enough? It’s been 65 years […]
Mark Kavuma – “The Banger Factory”
Tassos Spiliotopoulos Quartet with Jonas Knutsson in Birmingham
Tassos Spiliotopoulos Quartet with Jonas Knutsson, (Birmingham Jazz at 1000 Trades. 6 March 2020. Review and photos by John Watson) Here’s an amazing story. The music world is full of surprising international […]
Con Chapman: “Rabbit’s Blues- The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges”
Con Chapman – Rabbit’s Blues – The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges (Oxford University Press. Book review by Frank Griffith) Con Chapman’s biography of alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges catapults him into […]
Kenny Barron/ Dave Holland Trio ft. Johnathan Blake – “Without Deception”
Kenny Barron/ Dave Holland Trio ft. Johnathan Blake- Without Deception (Dare2 Records DR2-011. CD review by Mike Collins) Kenny Barron and Dave Holland go back a long way. There’s a trio […]
The Pucciarelli Group at Hampstead Jazz Club
The Pucciarelli Group (Hampstead Jazz Club. 5 March 2020. Review by Lavender Sutton) The basement of Hampstead Jazz Club is an intimate and friendly setting where bands can communicate directly with their […]
TRIBUTE: McCoy Tyner (1938-2020) by Steve Melling
Pianist Steve Melling remembers the very great McCoy Tyner, his music, and an invaluable and unforgettable piece of advice… I was lucky enough to meet and speak to the great McCoy Tyner – […]
#IWD2020: Helena Kay, saxophonist
Saxophonist Helena Kay grew up in Perth in Scotland, studied in London from 2012 to 2016, and is currently based in New York. She has been Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the […]
#IWD2020: Ann Braithwaite, jazz publicist
Ann Braithwaite, originally from Barrington, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, has been running the Boston-based PR firm Braithwaite and Katz Communications since 1986. Journalists love working with her for the quality music she […]
#IWD2020: Fanny Ménégoz, flautist
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Matthieu Jouan at our French partner Citizen Jazz caught up with flautist Fanny Ménégoz to talk about her music, playing with various collectives and gender balance […]
Rodney Green’s Jackson Miller at Pizza Express Jazz Club
Writer AJ Dehany and photographer Monika S. Jakubowska combine their impressions of Rodney Green’s ‘Jackson Miller’, making their London Debut at Pizza Express Jazz Soho on Sunday 1 March 2020: “My name […]
Pasquale Grasso – “Solo Masterpieces”
Pasquale Grasso – Solo Masterpieces (Sony Masterworks – Digital only. Review by Adam Sieff) Pasquale Grasso is a thirty-one year old Italian guitar player who’s been living in New York for the […]
#IWD2020: Sun-Mi Hong, drummer
When Sun-Mi Hong was twelve, she saw and heard a drum kit for the first time. It was the start of a fixation that has led to the Korean-born Sun, as she […]
#IWD2020: Yazz Ahmed, trumpeter and composer
British-Bahraini trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer Yazz Ahmed is a musician who has carved out an inimitable musical path for herself. John Fordham speaks to her ahead of International Women’s Day about her […]
Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2020
Liverpool International Jazz festival (Capstone Theatre, Liverpool. 29 February- 1 March 2020. Days 3 and 4 of the 4-day festival. Round-up by Peter Slavid) The Liverpool Jazz Festival has done that rare […]
#IWD2020: Isobella Burnham, bassist
A recent London arrival, bassist Isobella Burnham came to town from Barbados, where she grew up, in 2018. Since then she’s taken the London jazz scene by storm, gigging and touring with […]
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