Mhenwhâr Huws – Body Control (Self-released. CD review by Fiona Mactaggart) One of the most interesting things about this Glasgow-based experimental, improvising string and percussion quartet, is perhaps the meaning behind band’s […]
Sebastian’s regular London Column in April-May edition of the German Magazine JAZZTHETIK, with Estonian singer Kadri Voorand on the cover, looks at Canadians in London: What is it about Canadians that makes […]
Karen Sharp Trio – Another Place (KLS Records – KLS001. CD Review by Graham Spry) Saxophonist Karen Sharp first made her mark on British jazz as a member of Humphrey Lyttelton’s eight-piece […]
Nick Costley-White “Speak Like A Child” Sextet (Pizza Express Dean Street. 23 February 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney) What a great project. Speak Like a Child was an album by Herbie Hancock […]
‘Jackson Miller’ is a new band, the brainchild of drummer, composer and sound designer Rodney Green, which will be in London for the first time this Sunday. In this project he takes […]
Oded Tzur – Here Be Dragons (ECM 083 5998. CD review by Peter Bacon) Oded Tzur makes an extraordinary sound with his tenor saxophone. I suppose the last time I was quite so […]
Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet – Live at the Jazz Café 091218 (LyteRecords LR049. CD Review by Jane Mann) This splendid new double live CD from award-winning saxophonist, band leader, composer and educator […]
Arun Ghosh Quartet + Archipelago (Middlesbrough Sunday Jazz in the Crypt February 2020 edition. Review by AJ Dehany) Arun Ghosh’s music has a kaleidoscopic melodicism that sounds naturally exotic without contriving to […]
The Milk Factory – Aula (De Werf Records W.E.R.F.163. CD Review by Dick Hovenga*) Ghent jazz band The Milk Factory is quite exceptional. In 2018 we heard them live, at the renowned […]
Art Themen – Thane & The Villeins (Hadleigh Jazz Records. CD review by Leonard Weinreich) In the good ol’ days of American legend, when men sported hand-painted ties and automobiles sprouted fins, […]
Julia Biel – Black and White, Vol. 1 (Rokit Records/Ankhtone Records RKT060/AKH005CD. CD review by Adrian Pallant) Where to categorise the music of Julia Biel (if, indeed, that were necessary) – rock, pop, R&B, […]
John Ghost – Airships Are Organisms (SDBANUCD11. CD review by Dick Hovenga*) Flemish sextet John Ghost deserves all of our attention. Their debut album, For A Year They Slept, made quite the […]
Kamasi Washington (Kings Theatre, Brooklyn. 20 February 2020. Review by Dan Bergsagel) It has probably been five years since Kamasi Washington last played an intimate venue, but the Kings Theatre is really […]
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Niall Greig Fulton – Planet Wave (Queens Hall Edinburgh, 21 February 2020. Review by Mark McKergow) The SNJO re-stretched their musical boundaries with this emphatic performance of […]
Mary James writes: The fourth Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition will be held in Lusławice, Poland, from 7-10 July 2020. The competition is open to violinists, violists and cellists of all […]
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