The 22nd of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) is a classic from the great Anglo-South African blending of the 1970s. This set, the first as named leader by the indomitable South […]
Vocalist Germana Stella La Sorsa has a new album coming out later in the year. Alison Bentley interviewed her recently (LINK BELOW). Here’s a sneak peek of the first single, If I […]
Omar + QCBA (Live at The Jazz Café. Also recorded for future release as a live album. 29 May 2021. Review by Lavender Sutton) Camden Town on a Saturday night was an […]
Ches Smith & We All Break: Path of Seven Colors Pyroclastic Records. Album Review by Tony Dudley-Evans There has always been a strong relationship between jazz and Latin and Caribbean rhythms. This […]
The International Inntöne Jazz Festival is one of Europe’s best and most imaginatively programmed boutique festivals. It is held at a pig farm in the Innviertel in Austria, the 250-year-old Buchmannhof near […]
David Beebee – Planet B (Available from Bandcamp – link below, Album review by Alison Bentley) “There is no Planet B,” climate protesters remind us, but UK pianist David Beebee has created […]
So Nice is the debut album of Dutch vocalist Wilma Baan. It is also the very first release to be produced by the new ‘Soup to Nuts’ production company, jointly run by […]
Richard X Bennett – RXB3 (Ubuntu Music UBU0089 – Album review by Mark McKergow) Brooklyn-based pianist Richard X Bennett leads his new trio on a lively and engaging journey in this new […]
The programme for the BBC Proms 2021 is announced today and the season programme is available online and from bookshops. The season runs from 30 July to 11 September. Booking will open […]
Sons of Kemet – Black to The Future (Impulse Records. Album review by Graham Spry) Shabaka Hutchings stays true to the traditional practise of artists on Impulse Records, such as Charles Mingus, […]
Vocalist Somi (Kakoma) was born in Illinois to Rwandan and Ugandan parents, writes Nicky Schrire. In her previous records and in her music at large, she has fully embraced her African heritage, […]
Liam Noble’s fortnightly livestream on Twitch TV on Saturday afternoons from his home has been one of the joys of the lockdown, writes Tony Dudley-Evans. He picks a different theme each week, […]
Bass guitarist/bandleader Ben Crosland’s new album Solway Stories, recorded in the lockdown window in September 2020, is ‘a very personal record ‘, ‘an homage to a beautiful border landscape, and to pivotal […]
Number twenty-one of Jon Turney’s weekly selections (introduced HERE), is the first treatment of a theme that David Murray loves to revisit. The title track from David Murray’s first album as a […]
Italian singer, composer and lyricist Germana Stella La Sorsa moved to London in 2017, and quickly made an impact on the London scene with her Jazz in Cinema project. Tony Kofi has […]
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