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 […]
L.U.M.E (Lisbon) vs. LUME (London) at EFG LJF 2021
Festival Report – Jazzfest Berlin 2021
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 + Kaja Draksler/ Susana Santos Silva at Jazzfest Berlin 2021
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 […]
Jonas Westergaard Trio + Elias Stemeseder/PHILM at Zig Zag Jazz Club, 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 at Ronnie Scott’s
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 2021
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 […]
Mikael Máni (New Album ‘Nostalgia Machine’)
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, Twickenham
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 […]
Ill-Considered at Kings Place Hall Two
Ill-Considered (Liran Donin, Idris Rahman, Emre Ramazanoglu) (Kings Place Hall Two. 10 July 2021. Live review by AJ Dehany) I used to switch the lights off and listen to the Velvet Underground […]
Emma-Jean Thackray – ‘Yellow’
Emma-Jean Thackray – Yellow (Movementt. Album review by AJ Dehany) Mercury is the planet that is said to rule communication, and Mercury presides over trumpeter and composer Emma-Jean Thackray’s first full-length album Yellow […]
Capri-Batterie — ‘TANQ’
Capri-Batterie — TANQ (DPROMCD154. Album review by AJ Dehany) Over a century since Tristan Tzara stuck his mitt in a dictionary and pulled out the word Dada, the absurdist artistic movement originating […]
Jupiter Rising festival (Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, 28-29 August 2021)
AJ Dehany remembers the 2019 edition and looks forward to dipping a toe back in the water of music festivals: Styling itself as a Scottish Supernormal, the delayed third edition of the […]
Liam Noble (Saturday afternoon livestreams on Twitch TV)
Liam Noble’s fortnightly livestream on Twitch TV on Saturday afternoons from his home has been one of the joys of the lockdown, writes Tony Dudley-Evans. He picks a different theme each week, […]
Nishla Smith (Live at Barts Great Hall, 19 May 2021/ Announcing New Album on Whirlwind Recordings)
Nishla Smith is an Australian-born jazz singer. As a current City Music Foundation (CMF) artist, she will be performing in Bart’s Great Hall on 19 May as part of the CMF lunchtime […]
Tom Seminar Ford Lockdown Session – Livestream from Ronnie Scott’s
Tom Seminar Ford Livestream (Ronnie Scott’s Lockdown sessions. 11 January 2021. All Photos: Monika S.Jakubowska/Ronnie Scott’s. Words by AJ Dehany) Birmingham-raised, Berklee-trained guitarist Tom Seminar Ford played a delay-rich fusion sound […]
