Total Vibration (Green Note. 15 November 2020. Livestream from EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Jon Turney) This looks enticing. Familiar players in an unfamiliar combination: trumpeters Laura Jurd and Chris Batchelor, […]
Dinosaur (Livestreamed from Kings Place, EFG London Jazz Festival 15 November 2020. Review by John Bungey) As an emergency new medium, the online-only gig has yet to reach perfection. When Dinosaur ended […]
New Switzerland: Julie Campiche + Ikarus + Trio Heinz Herbert (EFG London Jazz Festival. 14 November 2020. Review by Alison Bentley) Jazz musicians are always adaptable – we may not have been […]
Jerry & The Pelican System is a project led by young Polish saxophonist and composer Jerzy Mączyński. The avant-garde musician will perform via a stream of a concert recorded in Poznań at […]
Oz Noy – Snapdragon (Abstract Logix ABLX063. CD review by Adam Sieff) I first saw the Israeli-born and New York-based guitarist Oz Noy play when he was a member of the great […]
Bancroft and Lyne – Monday Nights (released 23 November) (LisaLeo Records 0901. CD & Download review by Fiona Mactaggart) Esteemed Scottish singer-songwriter Sophie Bancroft and Canada-born bassist Tom Lyne, a wife and […]
Dave Young – Ides of March (released 20 November) (Modica Music. CD review by Lavender Sutton) Winnipeg-born, Toronto-based Dave Young, who has recently passed his 80th birthday, is most celebrated for his […]
Iain Ballamy and Huw Warren (Cardiff University Concert Hall. 11 November 2020. Review by Sam Norris) Few names in British jazz guarantee quality quite like those of pianist Huw Warren and tenor […]
SEED Ensemble and Guests: Celebrating The Music of Pharoah Sanders (Barbican. 14 November 2020. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review from livestream by Tony Dudley-Evans) ‘Beauty’ and ‘simplicity’ were the two features that […]
Tania Giannouli Trio – In Fading Light (Rattle Records RAT-D105. Review by Adrian Pallant) A trio led by a pianist – but not a piano trio in the expected sense. For, in […]
‘Everything was driven by friendship,’ says Texas-born, New York-based alto saxophonist Patrick Cornelius of his quartet Acadia. The group’s new album Way of the Cairns, also inspired by the natural beauty of […]
John Rae – Uncouth And Without Form (Thick Records. Download only. Review by Patrick Hadfield) John Rae was central to the resurgence of the Scottish Jazz scene around the turn of the century, […]
The Royal Bopsters – Party Of Four (Motema 0372. CD Review by Leonard Weinreich) If you’re allergic to vocalese, stop. Sorry about that, but you’ve arrived at the wrong review. On the […]
Jazz Voice (Livestreamed from Cadogan Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival 13 November 2020. Review by Leah Williams) As the EFG London Jazz Festival kicks off this year, it is navigating – as […]
A brand new series of livestreams from Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey starts tomorrow, Saturday 14 November 2020. An all-star quartet (Ron Carter, Joe Lovano, Isaiah J. Thompson and […]
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