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 […]
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 […]
Chumbo, Jasmine Quintet & Holly Flo Lightly (Written Records Interchanges at Cluny 2, Newcastle. 27 Feb 2022. Live review by AJ Dehany) Purists beware! — Interchanges, the inaugural live event curated by […]
National Youth Jazz Orchestra: Amy Winehouse – A Celebration of her Life and Music (The Fire Station, Sunderland, 10 Feb 2022. Review by AJ Dehany) The death of the troubled English singer-songwriter […]
Binker Golding, John Edwards, Steve Noble / Amy Gadiaga Trio (The Jazz Sanctuary, Twickenham. 28 January 2022. Live review by AJ Dehany) Amy Gadiaga (pron. Ga-dya-ja) is a young French-born bass player […]
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 […]
WoodKid + Yo La Tengo(Royal Festival Hall. 17/19 November 2021. EFG LJF. Review by AJ Dehany) The Beyond Margins series at the London Jazz Festival presents artists who don’t usually appear in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Vijay Iyer Trio with Linda Han-Oh and Tyshawn Sorey / Kaja Draksler & Susana Santos Silva (Pierre Boulez Saal, JazzFest Berlin 2021. Review by AJ Dehany) The Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin […]
“Inside…”Series: Jonas Westergaard Trio / Elias Stemeseder with Philipp Gropper’s PHILM, (Zig Zag Jazz Club, Berlin. 31 October 2021. Live Review and phone snaps by AJ Dehany) The “Inside…” series is as […]
Shez Raja (Ronnie Scott’s. 5 September 2021. Review by AJ Dehany Punjab means ‘five rivers’. In early 2020 bass player and composer Shez Raja travelled with his father to the Punjab region […]
Herne Bay Jazz and Swing Festival (Pier Stage and King’s Hall, Herne Bay, 22 August 2021 (third day of three). Round-Up by Sebastian Scotney) What if jazz wasn’t always tucked away in […]
Icelandic guitarist Mikael Máni’s second album Nostalgia Machine is a crossover work of confidently understated melodic refinement. Feature/ Interview by AJ Dehany: The text accompanying Mikael Máni’s new album says that in […]
The Jazz Sanctuary is a monthly music event in South West London which brings together established and emerging artists from the UK jazz scene. Promoter/organiser Sarah Meyer talked to AJ Dehany about […]
