Johan Lindvall Trio – This is Not About You(Jazzland Recordings. Album review by Rob Mallows) This album by a Norwegian trio new to me came with one of the most florid and cryptic […]
Johan Lindvall Trio – ‘This is Not About You’
RIP Tina May (1961-2022)
With his express permission – and also with our sincerest thanks and deepest sympathies – we publish this statement from Ben Tracey: It is in deep bereavement that I must release news […]
Iiro Rantala – ‘Potsdam’
Iiro Rantala – Potsdam (ACT 9946-2. Album Review by Alison Bentley) “Jazz needs melodies,” says Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala. “It needs things that people can latch on to.” And melodies bring together […]
Arun Ghosh – (‘Seclused In Light’ / album launch tour)
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’
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 […]
BBC Radio 3 After Dark Festival at Sage Gateshead
BBC Radio 3 After Dark Festival(Sage Gateshead. Festival Report by AJ Dehany) Sage Gateshead’s first all-night event, After Dark, was an ideal insomnia, a mind-expanding, time-bending 12-hour programme of music and more […]
Jim McNeely & The Frankfurt Radio Big Band, featuring Chris Potter – ‘Rituals’
Jim McNeely & The Frankfurt Radio Big Band, featuring Chris Potter – Rituals (Double Moon Records. Album review by Charles Rees) Jim McNeely‘s extraordinary catalogue of works as composer/arranger have earned him […]
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2022
(Bergamo Jazz Festival. 18-20 March 2022. Round-up by Andy Hamilton) The first post-Covid festival returned to Bergamo’s main venues, now beautifully restored – most notably, the magnificent Teatro Donizetti, with its frescoed […]
Brigitte Beraha (Lucid Dreamers tour, 25 March-24 July)
Vocalist Brigitte Beraha’s quartet Lucid Dreamers, with Alcyona Mick (piano/ synth), George Crowley (sax/clarinet/ electronics) and Tim Giles (drums/ electronics) has a new album, Blink, for release on 20 May with a […]
Ten Tracks by Joni Mitchell I can’t do without… by Tara Minton
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, singer-songwriter Tara Minton picks […]
Mark Turner – ‘Return from the Stars’
Mark Turner – Return from the Stars (ECM Records, ECM 2684. Review by Graham Spry) The great California-born tenor saxophonist Mark Turner once again gives free rein to his passion for the […]
Alexander Bryson – ‘The Alexander Bryson Trio’
Alexander Bryson – The Alexander Bryson Trio (Hardbop Records. Album Review by Lavender Sutton) Pianist Alexander Bryson is releasing his debut album after having spent time in New York City getting his […]
Phil Robson (‘Portrait in Extreme’, Lyte Records. Release on 25 March)
Guitarist Phil Robson is back on this side of the Atlantic. After five years living in New York – in Jersey City, across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan – he and […]
Dena DeRose and Champian Fulton at the 2022 Pizza Express Two Steinway Festival
Dena DeRose and Champian Fulton (Pizza Express Dean Street. 17 March 2022. Steinway Two Piano Festival. Report and phone snap by Sebastian Scotney) Dateline London W1, March 2022. The first ever concert […]
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