Larry Goldings / Peter Bernstein / Bill Stewart – Perpetual Pendulum (Pizza Express Dean Street, 4 March 2023. Second House. Live review by Gabriel Taylor) It’s often the case that the musicians […]
On his new album, pianist Terence Collie was not only the solo performer but also producer, sound engineer and camera operator. Album feature by John Bungey. The ingredients were simple: a Yamaha […]
German composer, clarinettist and bandleader Rebecca Trescher made a substantial impact on the German jazz scene with her Tentet album “Paris Zyklus – The Spirit of the Streets”, released on Enja in […]
Heidi Fleming is a manager and founder of Famgroup, an artist management agency based in Montréal, Canada. The daughter of celebrated jazz accordionist Gordie Fleming and singer Joanne Lalonde, Heidi founded Fleming […]
Francesca Confortini is a vocalist, songwriter, arranger and educator. Born in Milan, she initially studied musical theatre, then moved to London to study first popular music at the Institute of Contemporary Music […]
As he looks forward to this year’s Swanage Jazz Festival, and announces the programme, Festival Chair Paul Kelly writes: Swanage Jazz Festival has the most stunning setting with the Mowlem Theatre sited […]
Mammal Hands – Gift From The Trees (Release date 31 March 2023)(Gondwana Records. Album review by Rob Mallows) With a track record in mixing jazz sensibilities with elements of trance, ambient music […]
Christine Tobin – Returning Weather (Trail Belle Records TBR05. Review by AJ Dehany) Returning Weather is Irish composer-singer Christine Tobin’s nine-part meditation on the nature of home and homecoming. This fine evocative […]
Up-and-coming vocalist Immy Churchill is already in demand, having that natural-born ability to connect to the music and draw the audience in. Still undertaking jazz studies, the future looks set to be […]
“Mothers In Jazz” is a new series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry […]
Elton Dean, Steve Miller & Pip Pyle – Home Brewed (British Progressive Jazz. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) The aptly named British Progressive Jazz label has released this previously unavailable recording from […]
Clown Core (Bimhuis, Amsterdam. 3 March 2023, 2nd night of 3. Live review by AJ Dehany) Any Dutch music festival is just one pumpkin away from a brain-melting musical aneurysm. At Rewire […]
The premiere of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s version of Peter and the Wolf, translated specially into the language particular to the area, is included in the programme for Aberdeen Jazz Festival. […]
“It was probably the high point of my musical life”, says American pianist and composer Richie Beirach of his experience performing in Japan with Wayne Shorter in 1987. Beirach writes a personal […]
Sebastian writes: A tribute to Wayne Shorter, who has died today at the age of 89, will follow. Meanwhile there are some great posts appearing to mark the passing of a true […]
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