FORJ – Our Space(Digital release only. Review by AJ Dehany) FORJ play music the way you want it to be played, with a creativity resistant to running orders but respectful to form […]
FORJ – ‘Our Space’
Lucid Dreamers (Brigitte Beraha) – ‘Blink’
Lucid Dreamers (Brigitte Beraha) – Blink (Let Me Out Records. Album review by AJ Dehany) Dreaming continues to permeate the work of Brigitte Beraha’s quartet Lucid Dreamers on this second album Blink, […]
Bristol New Music 2022
Bristol New Music 2022 (various venues in Bristol, 5-8 May) Angel Bat Dawid + Bendik Giske + Ligeti Quartet + Shirley Pegna/Dominic Lash/Angharad Davies + Kelly Jayne Jones + Sarah Davachi Gert […]
Soweto Kinch: Resident Artistic Director at SFJazz, San Francisco (19-22 May 2022)
Soweto Kinch is heading off to San Francisco, where he will be Resident Artistic Director of SFJazz for the four days from 19 to 22 May. Preview feature by Tony Dudley-Evans. Two […]
Bristol New Music Festival (5-8 May 2022)
Todd Wills, former music programmer for the Vortex, is Artistic Director at Bristol Beacon, and is about to launch the fourth edition of Bristol New Music festival. A collective involving Spike Island, […]
Rewire Festival 2022 (Netherlands)
Rewire Festival (Amare, The Hague, Netherlands, 7-10 April 2022. Festival Round-Up by AJ Dehany) Rewire is an intersection of the determinedly intellectual and the robustly physical that rewards ambition. In its 11th […]
Ryan McCaffrey (Cong-Fusion album ‘The World As We Know It’ – CLF Art Lounge 15 April)
Jazz-funk fusion seven-piece Cong-Fusion’s debut album The World As We Know It is brimming with musical inspirations from Afro-Cuban music, jazz, funk and soul, with deep personal reflections on family, bullying, alcohol, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chumbo, Jasmine Quintet, Holly Flo Lightly at Cluny 2, Newcastle
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 […]
NYJO in Sunderland: ‘Amy Winehouse – A Celebration of her Life and Music’
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 at The Jazz Sanctuary, Twickenham
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 […]
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 […]
WoodKid + Yo La Tengo (EFG LJF 2021)
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 […]
