Steve Beresford / Thurston Moore duo (Cafe OTO. 16 March 2020. Review and drawing by Geoff Winston) Cafe OTO embarked on an ambitious fundraising campaign with five concerts on consecutive nights, opened […]
CHBO Drums – 0419NY (Safehouse 194660755995. CD review by Frank Griffith) 0419NY was recorded in April 2019 in Kerhonkson in New York state (hence the title), 80 miles North of NYC, and […]
Fred Hersch inaugural online daily live mini-concert (22 March 2020. Online/Live Review by Dan Bergsagel) Needless to say that disruption is currently the norm. And out of all the unexpected turns of […]
Fred Hersch has put out a statement via his publicist: Mini Concert Every Day I hope everybody is safe and healthy and will remain that way. This is an unprecedented challenge […]
Sebastian writes. The following notification has come from the Vortex : “Combining our resources, our faith in improvisation and our deep belief in the importance of culture and the arts, Sands Films […]
Max de Wardener, Music for Detuned Pianos, performed by Kit Downes (Village Green: vinyl VGLP063, CD VGCD063. LP/CD Review by Geoff Winston) Music for Detuned Pianos is deceptively simple. This thoughtful, meditative, […]
Sefrial – Sefrial (Self-release. CD Review by Jon Turney) Named after a John Zorn composition recorded by Medeski, Martin and Wood, Sefrial declare their influences up front. When they began entertaining audiences […]
The nominations for the Jazz FM Awards 2020, produced by Serious, have been announced today. The JazzFM Awards website states that the winners will be announced on 27 May. Public voting […]
NDR in Hamburg have announced in a press release that Percy Pursglove has become a member of the NDR Big Band, one of the three such entities in Germany with salaried posts. His […]
Jason Palmer – The Concert, 12 Musings for Isabella (Giant Step Arts. 2 CDs. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is, understandably but sadly, closed today. This happens to […]
Rachael Cohen Quartet (The Oxford, Kentish Town. 9 March 2020. Review by Brian Blain) A trip to one of the regular Monday nights at The Oxford in Kentish Town last week to […]
Christian McBride – The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons (Mack Avenue MAC 1082. CD review by Peter Vacher) The brilliant US bassist Christian McBride is something of a present-day […]
Henrik Jensen’s Followed By Thirteen – Affinity (Babel Label BDV19157. CD review by Adrian Pallant) Purity and luminosity characterise Affinity, the third release from Henrik Jensen’s Followed By Thirteen. As discovered in the double bassist’s previous […]
JZ Replacement – Disrespectful (Rainy Days Records. CD review by Fiona Mactaggart) The startling orange and lime-coloured acid-grunge-style album cover immediately gives notice that something a bit punky and fresh is in […]
Sam Gendel – Satin Doll (Nonesuch 075597922158. CD Review by AJ Dehany) Sam Gendel’s Satin Doll deconstructs jazz standards in a woozy crunk of dense electronic synthwave dreamscapes. With an ideally quirky […]
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