Jazz & The City Festival – Part 1 (Various venues, Salzburg, 17/18 October 2019. Round-up review by Leah Williams) Landing quite late on the second official day of Salzburg’s Jazz & the […]
Jazz & The City Festival, Salzburg – Part 1
Morten Schantz Godspeed at Sounds of Denmark Revisited
Morten Schantz Godspeed (Pizza Express Dean Street. Sounds of Denmark Revisited. 16 October 2019. Review by Mary James) Thousands of miles together in planes, weeks away from home, gigs in Copenhagen, Beijing, […]
Rich Perry – Other Matters
Rich Perry – Other Matters (SteepleChase SCCD 31876. CD Review by Frank Griffith) Other Matters is tenor saxophonist Rich Perry‘s 25th release for Steeplechase, a label which he has been recording with […]
Marc Copland Trio – And I Love Her
Marc Copland Trio – And I Love Her (Illusions Mirage IM4004. CD review by Mike Collins) In a recording studio somewhere, the drummer drops into a groove: a ghost of a backbeat; a […]
Winners Announced at 2019 Victoires du Jazz Ceremony including Anne Pacéo, Naïssam Jalal and Henri Texier
Annie Yanbékian of France TV writes (*): Drummer Anne Pacéo (Artist of the Year), singer David Linx (Vocal Artist), trombonist Fidel Fourneyron (Emerging Artist), Fred Pallem’s Sacre du Tympan (Group of the […]
Mingus Big Band at the Jazz Standard, NYC
Mingus Big Band (Jazz Standard, E 27th Street, New York. 14 October 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel) Monday is often a night off in the jazz world, but not at the Jazz […]
ADVICE: Sound Reasoning Part 7 – other things to consider
Mark Wingfield is a mixing and mastering engineer at Heron Island Studio. He has three DownBeat Masterpiece albums under his belt, a Jazzwise Best Release Of The Year, and over 300 rave […]
Gallus Festival in Edinburgh marks 10-year anniversary of RCS jazz course (17-20 October)
Rob Adams writes: 10 Years of the RCS Course Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith plays a hometown concert at the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh this Thursday as the jazz course he runs at the Royal […]
Calum Gourlay (Quartet album New Ears and tour dates 22 Oct – 16 Nov)
Bassist Calum Gourlay was born in Glasgow, and grew up in Fife, playing in his father’s jazz workshops and Scottish big bands, including Tommy Smith’s Youth Jazz Orchestra. He’s now based in London. His […]
Terri Lyne Carrington residency at Kings Place – programme and guests announced (2019 EFG LJF)
Sebastian writes: Kings Place is hosting an artistic residency by Terri Lyne Carrington during the EFG London Jazz Festival, and the full list of guests for the three events has now been […]
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