Rebecca Vasmant – With Love, From Glasgow (REBREC001 LP review by Adam Sieff) There have been a number of records released recently celebrating the jazz scenes which are being redefined by young […]
Rebecca Vasmant – ‘With Love, From Glasgow’
10th Herts Jazz Festival 2021, 15-17 Oct. Programme Announced + Booking Open
The Programme is announced for the 2021 Herts Jazz Festival. The dates are 15 to 17 October. It will be at the South Mill Arts in Bishop’s Stortford. Headliners for the evening […]
Miroslav Vitous and Emil Viklický – ‘Moravian Romance – Live at the 2018 Brno Jazz Festival’
Miroslav Vitous and Emil Viklický – Moravian Romance Recorded Live at the 2018 Brno Jazz Festival (Venus Record VHCD-1243. Album Review by Sebastian Scotney) Moravian Romance was released on the Japanese Venus […]
Birgit Minichmayr – ‘As An Unperfect Actor: Nine Shakespeare Sonnets’
Birgit Minichmayr – As An Unperfect Actor. Nine Shakespeare Sonnets set to music by Bernd Lhotzky with Quadro Nuevo (ACT 9931-2. Album review by John Arnett) It is extraordinary to think that […]
Jim Mullen Trio at the 606 Club: Re-Opening Night (!)
Sebastian writes: Whereas there has been music coming from the 606 – the Chelsea club has been broadcasting a couple of live streams each week throughout the pandemic – last night, 20 […]
Roy Mor – ‘After The Real Thing’
Roy Mor – After The Real Thing(Ubuntu Music UBU0081. Album review by Adrian Pallant) The evocative strains of the oud were the immediate allure of this attractive debut recording, as leader, by […]
10 Tracks by Norma Winstone I Can’t Do Without… by vocalist/composer Nicky Schrire.
In our series in which musicians do a “deep dive” into the music of their inspirations, Nicky Schrire writes about ten favourite tracks by Norma Winstone. Norma Winstone is a storyteller. This […]
Joe Traina – ‘Tip of the Hat’
Joe Traina – Tip of the Hat (JTM 2020-1. Album review by Frank Griffith) Clarinettist Joe Traina‘s CD Tip of the Hat elucidates his full and liquid clarinet tone along with his […]
Glasgow Jazz Festival 2021 (18-20 June – programme announcement)
The first acts are announced for the 2021 Glasgow Jazz Festival. It will be a three-day digital festival from Friday 18 and Sunday 20 June, based at Saint Luke’s near the Gallowgate. […]
SNJO/ Maria Rud – ‘Where Rivers Meet’, Parts 2 +4: Dewey Redman + Albert Ayler
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Maria Rud – Where Rivers Meet: The Music of Dewey Redman and Albert Ayler (Recorded at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh on 30 April 2021. Streaming until August […]
SNJO/Maria Rud – ‘Where Rivers Meet, ‘Parts 1 and 3: Ornette Coleman + Anthony Braxton
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Maria Rud – Where Rivers Meet, Parts 1 + 3 : The Music of Ornette Coleman and Anthony Braxton (Recorded at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh on 30 April […]
Ronnie Scott’s: Re-opening and livestreaming plans announced
In a Press Release issued today, Ronnie Scott’s announces: Reopening to audiences from Thursday 20 May 2021 Live (and only live-) stream Saturdays series in partnership with Dice FM Here is the […]
Obituary: Conrad Cork (1940-2021)
Conrad Cork, writes Andy Hamilton, was an alto-saxophonist, bassist, and Director of Jazz Studies in the Performing Arts Department at De Montfort University, Leicester. He was born in Birmingham, England, in 1940 […]
Roy Mor – ‘After The Real Thing’ (new album on Ubuntu Music, release 21 May)
The ‘sound of surprise’, writes Mike Collins, is a description often attached to jazz since American writer Whitney Balliett used it in the early 60s. It sprang to mind as London Jazz […]
Fizzle at Centrala, Digbeth Birmingham (23 May, 20 June & 18 July, 2pm)
Alto saxophonist Lee Griffiths, originally from Northamptonshire, studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and is one of the organisers behind the Fizzle series of improvised and experimental music. He and Olivia Murphy will be […]
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