The Espen Eriksen Trio – pianist Eriksen, bassist Lars Tormod Jenset and drummer Andreas Bye – have been together for fifteen years and recently released their first live album, “In the Mountains”. […]
Leléka – Sonce u Serci (FM321-2. Album review by Alison Bentley) “I have the sun in my heart,” sings Ukrainian vocalist Viktoria Leléka, and you believe her. This album of mostly traditional […]
Michael Wollny Trio – Ghosts (release date 30 Sep 2022)(ACT 9956-2. CD review by Mike Collins) With the release of Ghosts, pianist Michael Wollny reunites the trio that recorded Weltentraum, the 2014 […]
“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 […]
Keith Jarrett – Bordeaux Concert (ECM 4576608. Album review by Jon Turney) Will this be the final solo piano release from Keith Jarrett? We know he can no longer perform, but you’d […]
We invited colleagues, friends and fans to wish Michael Gibbs a happy 85th birthday today, Sunday 25 September 2022. The response has been wonderful, heart-warming, even slightly overwhelming: Iain Ballamy: Mr Gibbs! […]
William Parker Quartet (Green-Wood Cemetery. Concerts in the Catacombs series. 22 September 2022. Live review by Dan Bergsagel) There was no extended chat from the concert hosts at Green-Wood Cemetery to introduce this […]
Cellicious (Kate Shortt and Rupert Gillett) (Lauderdale House, 22 September 2022. Short live review by Sebastian Scotney) This was a clever choice to welcome a loyal audience back for the 2022-2023 season […]
Paul Sexton: Charlie’s Good Tonight: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts (Mudlark, £25, 368pp. Book review by Chris Parker) The Introduction to this biography of Rolling Stone drummer Charlie Watts sums up […]
Duke Ellington – Live At The Berlin Jazz Festival 1969 -1973 (The Lost Recordings TLR2204041. Album review by Len Weinreich) By their own admission, record companies are a clumsy, scatty and careless […]
The church organ was the very first instrument on which Kit Downes learned to play music. It was during his time as a chorister at Norwich Cathedral. Recently moved to Berlin, he […]
Samara Joy – Linger Awhile (Verve 4826649. Album review by Adam Sieff) Samara Joy’s eponymous debut album released by Whirlwind during the Summer of 2021 was a masterpiece. Supported by a trio […]
Saxophonist/composer Josephine Davies has a new orchestra, the Ensō Ensemble. They will perform the premiere of her new composition Ascension Suite on 21 October at the Vortex, and then in St Leonards. […]
The programme of Jazzfest Berlin 2022 is announced and tickets go on sale this morning. The press release begins: “After the two hybrid festival editions with digital bridges to New York, Johannesburg, […]
“There’s probably no frame wide enough to encompass the creative output of the pianist Vijay Iyer .” New York Times Two imminent London events will show something of that range. In anticipation […]
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