ELDA – Collaborations 2020-2022 (7CD EP box set(*). Album review/ feature by AJ Dehany) NB also: Tour Dates imminent / listed below Collaborations 2020-2022 is a warm reminder of a moment when […]
ELDA – ‘Collaborations 2020-2022’
Reis Demuth Wiltgen with Emile V. Schlesser: ‘Synaesthesia’ at SHUFFLE LX in Luxembourg
Reis Demuth Wiltgen with Emile V. Schlesser — Synaesthesia ( SHUFFLE LX —Opderschmelz, Dudelange, Luxembourg. 26 November 2022. Live review by AJ Dehany) “I can see colours dancing in my head. I […]
Bendik Giske at King’s Place Hall Two (2022 EFG LJF)
Bendik Giske (King’s Place Hall Two. 19 November 2022. Review by AJ Dehany) Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske’s performances are shamanic studies of physicality, vulnerability and endurance, made with just the body, breath, […]
Led Bib and Anthropods at the Vortex (2022 EFG LJF)
Led Bib and Anthropods at the Vortex The true finale to the 2022 London Jazz Festival was an evening of completely new music from the mind of New Jersey-born drummer, composer and […]
Heard in brief – mini-reviews and photos from 2022 EFG LJF
LJN provides the most extensive review coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. By far. This year we will have done over thirty of them. We have also asked our writers and […]
Jazz Sabbath at Pizza Express Soho (2022 EFG LJF)
Jazz Sabbath (Pizza Express Soho (2nd house) 16 November. Review by AJ Dehany) Adam Wakeman’s incendiary 2020 documentary “Before Black Sabbath: there was Jazz Sabbath”(LINK) broke a story that shocked the worlds […]
ChicagoXLondon at the Barbican (2022 EFG LJF)
Chicago X London — Jeff Parker, Ben LaMar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid, Alabaster DePlume (Barbican. 13 November 2022. Live review by AJ Dehany) You could call 2022 the “Chicago Edition” of the […]
Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music 2022 – Day 4 Report
Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music 2022 (Sunday 2 October. Day 4 Report by AJ Dehany) If you’re in Newcastle on a Sunday, you need to be at the Globe on […]
Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music: Day 3 Report
Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music (Lit & Phil, Newcastle. Day 3: Saturday 1 October. Festival report by Peter Slavid) A gig by Black Top is always a special event. That’s […]
Nicole Mitchell at the 2022 Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music
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 2022 – Day 1 Report
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’
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’
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/Gianni Gebbia at the 2022 Sicilia Jazz Festival
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’
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, […]
