In this edition of ’10 Tracks I Can’t Do Without, a series in which jazz musicians do a personal deep dive into the music of their antecedents and idols, Liam Noble considers […]
10 Tracks by Earl Hines I Can’t Do Without…by Liam Noble
Phil Robson – ‘Portrait In Extreme’
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 […]
Ten Tracks by Bill Frisell I can’t do without… by Liam Noble
For the LJN “10 Tracks I Can’t Do Without” series, in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, Liam Noble writes […]
#IWD2022: NYJO Chief Executive Susie York Skinner
Susie York Skinner (*) is Chief Executive of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO). NYJO, as she explains in this interview for International Women’s Day, is much more than a large ensemble putting […]
Mark Lockheart – ‘Dreamers’
Mark Lockheart – Dreamers (Edition Records, EDN1195. Review by Graham Spry) Mark Lockheart is a saxophonist and composer who first entered national consciousness in the 1980s with Loose Tubes, and was later […]
Ten Tracks by Derek Bailey I Can’t Do Without… by Dr. Stephen Tromans
In the latest of our series in which musicians write about their sources of inspiration, the pianist, composer, and philosopher Steve Tromans writes about his long-term admiration for, and association with, the […]
In Brief: The 2021 EFG London Jazz Festival in short reviews
LJN provides the most comprehensive coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. By a considerable margin. And yet our reviews (twenty and still counting at the time of publishing this) only pick […]
L.U.M.E (Lisbon) vs. LUME (London) at EFG LJF 2021
Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble, Purcell Room LUME, Hundred Years Gallery (EFG London Jazz Festival. 14 / 16 November 2021. Live review by AJ Dehany) The theory of thirty (*) is a phenomenon […]
Festival Report – Jazzfest Berlin 2021
Jazzfest Berlin: Scenes of Now Various Venues, Berlin — 4-7 November 2021. Round-Up by AJ Dehany) Jazzfest Berlin was founded in 1964 in West Berlin as the “Berliner Jazztage” with an activist […]
KUU! – ‘Artificial Sheep’ album launch at Kammerspiele, Munich
KUU! – Artificial Sheep album launch (Kammerspiele, Munich. 21 October 2021. Live review and photos by Ralf Dombrowski(*)) The theatre really is the right place for KUU! This band has a love […]
Alex Paxton – ‘Music For Bosch People’
Alex Paxton – Music For Bosch People(Birmingham Record Company BRC011. Album review by Fiona Mactaggart) Not a lot causes this writer to laugh out loud, but this album did, repeatedly. For improvising […]
Daphna Sadeh-Neu (EP ‘Magic of the Moment’, 33Jazz, released today)
“I have always been an instrumentalist but I reached a point where I realised I wanted to say something in words,” says Israeli-born, Bristol-based bassist, composer and bandleader Daphna Sadeh-Neu. In her […]
Lukas Ligeti – ‘That Which Has Remained…That Which Will Emerge…’
Lukas Ligeti – That Which Has Remained…That Which Will Emerge… (col legno music. Album review by Fiona Mactaggart) That Which Has Remained…That Which Will Emerge… is the latest album from Austrian-American composer, […]
Stefano Di Battista – ‘Morricone Stories’
Stefano Di Battista – Morricone Stories (Warner Music 9029504424. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) composed more than a hundred classical works and more than 400 TV and movie scores, including […]
Mark Feldman – ‘Sounding Point’
Mark Feldman – Sounding Point(Intakt Records, Intakt CD 354. CD review by Adrian Pallant) Violin … free jazz … isn’t that possibly a touch narrow and ‘out there’ for a 44-minute solo […]
