Nicole Mitchell Lit & Phil. Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music – Day 2 & 3. Two writers, Peter Slavid and AJ Dehany, jointly covered the innovative 2022 NFoJaIM festival for […]
Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music (The Lit& Phil, Newcastle. Day 1: Thursday 29 September 2022. Festival Report by Peter Slavid) Two LJN writers, Peter Slavid and AJ Dehany, jointly covered […]
Richard Andersson, Per Møllehøj, Jorge Rossy – Inviting(Review by AJ Dehany) Here are three fine players relaxing into standards. Turn the clock back to 1995-2002 and the young Jorge Rossy was Brad […]
Ambient Jazz Ensemble – London Fields (Here & Now Recordings. Review by AJ Dehany) Ambient Jazz Ensemble is a provocatively misdirecting moniker – not so much ambient as atmospheric, closer in kin to […]
Médéric Collignon and the Gianni Gebbia Magnetic Trio – Ommagio a Sidney Bechet (Sicilia Jazz Festival 2022. Review by AJ Dehany) You won’t forget your first encounter with the mischief and mania […]
Jemma Freese – Shadowboxing (Available from Bandcamp – link below. Album review by AJ Dehany) Whether thrashing a keyboard with indie art-rockers Maxïmo Park, hammering avant-hard jazzpunk soundscapes with trio J Frisco, […]
FORJ – Our Space(Digital release only. Review by AJ Dehany) FORJ play music the way you want it to be played, with a creativity resistant to running orders but respectful to form […]
Lucid Dreamers (Brigitte Beraha) – Blink (Let Me Out Records. Album review by AJ Dehany) Dreaming continues to permeate the work of Brigitte Beraha’s quartet Lucid Dreamers on this second album Blink, […]
Bristol New Music 2022 (various venues in Bristol, 5-8 May) Angel Bat Dawid + Bendik Giske + Ligeti Quartet + Shirley Pegna/Dominic Lash/Angharad Davies + Kelly Jayne Jones + Sarah Davachi Gert […]
Soweto Kinch is heading off to San Francisco, where he will be Resident Artistic Director of SFJazz for the four days from 19 to 22 May. Preview feature by Tony Dudley-Evans. Two […]
Todd Wills, former music programmer for the Vortex, is Artistic Director at Bristol Beacon, and is about to launch the fourth edition of Bristol New Music festival. A collective involving Spike Island, […]
Rewire Festival (Amare, The Hague, Netherlands, 7-10 April 2022. Festival Round-Up by AJ Dehany) Rewire is an intersection of the determinedly intellectual and the robustly physical that rewards ambition. In its 11th […]
Jazz-funk fusion seven-piece Cong-Fusion’s debut album The World As We Know It is brimming with musical inspirations from Afro-Cuban music, jazz, funk and soul, with deep personal reflections on family, bullying, alcohol, […]
Arun Ghosh – Seclused In Light (The Crescent, York. 24 March. Live review by AJ Dehany) Seclused In Light is a classic Arun Ghosh album, suffused with intense personal feeling driven by […]
Phil Robson – Portrait In Extreme (Lyte Records LR050 digital. Album Review by AJ Dehany) Portrait In Extreme is an approachably avant-garde extended player that presents a thematic exploration of ‘extremity’ from […]
