Mike Westbrook – The Piano and Me (Download only; album review by Patrick Hadfield) The Piano and Me is Mike Westbrook’s third album of solo piano music in recent years, following Paris and […]
Mike Westbrook – ‘The Piano and Me’
Elchin Shirinov Trio at Heath Street Baptist Church in Hampstead
Elchin Shirinov Trio (Heath Street Baptist Church Hampstead, 18 March 2023. Live review by Oliver Weindling) It is over four years since Azerbaijan-born pianist Elchin Shirinov was able to play as a […]
Pharoah Sanders Quartet – ‘Live At Fabrik Hamburg 1980’
Pharoah Sanders Quartet – Live At Fabrik Hamburg 1980 (NDR Kultur D77123 – CD/2LP review by Mark McKergow) Pharoah Sanders leads a fine quartet through some of his best loved tunes in […]
Tony Coe. A tribute by Aldevis Tibaldi
Italian-born saxophonist Aldevis Tibaldi got to know Tony Coe in recent years. He remembers him with gratitude, and sadness. Italian-born saxophonist Aldevis Tibaldi got to know Tony Coe in recent years. He […]
Sultan Stevenson – ‘Faithful One’
Sultan Stevenson ‘Faithful One’ (Whirlwind Recordings. Album review by Adam Sieff) There’s a real sense of excitement surrounding the release of this debut album from the pianist Sultan Stevenson. The young Londoner […]
Dameronia’s Legacy All-Stars at Ronnie Scott’s
Dameronia’s Legacy All-Stars (Ronnie Scott’s. 19 March 2023. Live review by Charles Rees) Austrian drummer Bernd Reiter talks often of his love for the playing of bebop drummer Philly Joe Jones, which […]
Mondays With Morgan: Trombonist Michael Dease (new album ‘The Other Shoe – The Music of Gregg Hill’)
Mondays With Morgan is a new column in London Jazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. He will be diving deeply into the jazz that […]
Paula Rae Gibson (new album, ‘I Found You Eating Colours’)
Vocalist, poet and photographer, Paula Rae Gibson releases her latest album, “I Found You Eating Colours” via a new outlet, the art magazine Unvaeled, which is adding a music label to its […]
Canadian pianist Sean Fyfe (London dates with quartet: Dave O’Higgins, Luke Fowler, Matt Fishwick)
“In London I’ve been able to develop more confidence and figure out how to be a band leader, in all senses.” Canadian pianist Sean Fyfe has certainly earned his place on the […]
An Audience with Father John Misty at Sage Gateshead
An Audience with Father John Misty (Sage Gateshead, 13 March 2023. Report by AJ Dehany) “As you can tell from all the fake jazz music you heard earlier, I was really floundering […]
Mothers In Jazz (34): Jesse Palter
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 […]
Julian Joseph and Gwilym Simcock at the PizzaExpress 2-Steinway Festival (Interview)
The second day of this year’s Two-Steinway Festival at PizzaExpress Dean Street, Sunday 19 March, consists of two concerts by the duo of Julian Joseph and Gwilym Simcock, at 1pm and then […]
Classic Jazz At The Philharmonic Jam Sessions (1950-1957)
Classic Jazz At The Philharmonic Jam Sessions (1950-1957)(Mosaic Records MD-10-275. 10-CD set. Review by Len Weinreich) In case this review catches the attention of a visiting Martian, a ‘jam session’ could be […]
Trichotomy – ‘To Vanish’
Trichotomy – To Vanish (Earshift Music – Review by Bruce Lindsay) Six years after the release of Known/Unknown Trichotomy, the Australian piano/bass/drums trio formed in 1999, returns with studio album number eight, […]
RIP Tony Coe (1934-2023)
Sebastian writes: Sad news. One of the understated greats of British jazz, saxophonist and clarinettist Tony Coe, passed away peacefully yesterday at the age of 88. The following tribute from Tim Garland’s […]
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