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Jonathan Gee: ‘Reimagining the Beatles’ and ‘Live in Rome (Villa Celimontana)’

By londonjazz on 12 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Ohisashiburi – Reimagining the Beatles (Verte Records VR20004) Gee Gallo Minetto – Live in Rome (Villa Celimontana) (danillogallo.bandcamp.com) (Album reviews by Mike Collins) This brace of recent releases from two different bands […]

Melody Gardot – ‘Sunset in the Blue (Deluxe Edition)’

By londonjazz on 12 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Melody Gardot – Sunset in the Blue (Deluxe Edition) (Decca. Album Review by John Bungey) So, deluxe editions … an energetic attempt to extract cash from super-fans or a valuable new perspective […]

Kristin Korb – ‘What If?’

By londonjazz on 12 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Kristin Korb – What If? (Double K Music (*). Album review by Lauren Bush) American double bassist and vocalist Kristin Korb was primarily based in LA until moving to Denmark about 10 […]

Juan Carlos Quintero – ‘Caminando’

By londonjazz on 12 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Juan Carlos Quintero – Caminando (Moondo Music. Album review by John Arnett) This is a timely and thoroughly justified re-release of an album that originally came out in 1997 under the title […]

Elliot Galvin and Laura Jurd (The Shape of Jazz to Come, streamed from Vortex)

By londonjazz on 12 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Elliot Galvin and Laura Jurd(The Vortex. Streamed on 8 April 2021. Review by Patrick Hadfield) One of the few good things to come out of the global pandemic has been the accessibility […]

Nova – ‘The Anatomy of Bliss’

By londonjazz on 11 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Nova – The Anatomy of Bliss (Nova Music. Album review by Rob Mallows) Can we ever truly know ourselves and the universe around us? The Danish physicist Niels Bohr – father of quantum […]

Michael Wolff – ‘Live at Vitellos’

By londonjazz on 11 April 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Michael Wolff – Live at Vitellos (Sunnyside Records SSC1615. Album review by Len Weinreich) Some sketched background: New Orleans-born, Los Angeles-resident Michael Wolff is a pianist affected by Tourette’s Syndrome: “a common […]

Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Reveals List of 10 Grant Recipients

By Juliette Kay on 9 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Berklee College in Boston has announced that 10 women have been awarded the Score Compilation Grant, which allows recipients to create digital collections of their scores in the Berklee Library. The grants […]

Thomas Strønen/Ayumi Tanaka/Marthe Lea – ‘Bayou’

By londonjazz on 8 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Thomas Strønen/Ayumi Tanaka/Marthe Lea – Bayou (ECM 0724298. CD Review by John Bungey) Clamp on the headphones, kick the cat off the sofa, and settle down for a journey into the land […]

Alder Ego – ‘III’

By londonjazz on 8 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Alder Ego – III (We Jazz Records WJLP31. Album Review by Peter Slavid) III is the third album from this young Finnish group, led by drummer Joonas Leppänen. He wrote the majority […]

Film – ‘Wilderness’ released today

By londonjazz on 5 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Sebastian writes: A film which has picked up THIRTEEN different awards at film festivals, and which has very strong jazz connections is on release on digital platforms from today 5 April 2021. […]

10 tracks by Herbie Hancock I can’t do without… by Jon Opstad

By londonjazz on 5 April 2021 • ( 3 Comments )

The truth, writes Jon Opstad, is that I can’t do without Herbie Hancock’s entire discography. In bringing this list down to just ten recordings some very specific parameters were called for. So […]

52 Jazz Tracks for 2021 (14. ‘My Ship’, Andrew Cyrille and Maono, 1978)

By londonjazz on 5 April 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

The fourteenth of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), features David S Ware getting ready for take-off. I bought this LP at a memorably powerful gig in Manchester by the quartet. The […]

Petition to remove fines for bassists travelling on French Railways

By londonjazz on 5 April 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

There is a petition currently under way, seeking to put an end to the fixed penalty fine of EUR150 which is increasingly being levied on bassists travelling on trains in France with […]

Binker Golding / John Edwards / Steve Noble – ‘Moon Day’

By londonjazz on 5 April 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Binker Golding, John Edwards, Steve Noble –  Moon Day (Byrd Out Records BYR 303. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans.) Saxophonist Binker Golding became known on the jazz scene through his Binker & […]

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