Hamid Drake and Mats GustafssonPhoto credit: Vanja Cerimagic via Sarajevo Jazz Festival Facebook pageSarajevo Jazz Festival(3-4 November 2017. Festival Round-Up Part Two by Tony Dudley-Evans)Day Four moved on from the three-day John […]
Liam NobleThe pianist and composer Liam Noble has released a 2013 live recording by his band Brother Face, which also included Chris Batchelor (trumpet), Shabaka Hutchings (tenor, clarinet), Dave Whitford (double bass) […]
Youn Sun NahPhoto credit: Sung Yull Nah/ ACT MusicSouth Korean vocalist YOUN SUN NAH has a new album She Moves On. To mark the release, she gave a joint interview to Jean-François […]
Skopje Jazz Festival 2016 (Skopje, National Theatre, October 13-16. Report and photos by Henning Bolte)Skopje/Скопје with its more than a half million inhabitants is the capital of the post-Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia […]
Drummer ANDREW BAIN has a new project involving American musicians entitled “Embodied Hope”. Their short but intense(!) tour is just starting. Andrew explained the background to Sebastian: LondonJazz News: This Embodied hope […]
Scene from the premiere performance of Trillium J at Roulette in Brooklyn in 2014 Photo Credit: Dylan McLaughlinAnthony Braxton – Trillium J: The Non-Unconfessionables (Composition No. 380) (New Braxton House NBH906. 4-CD-plus-Blu-Ray set. […]
Greg Cordez. Photo credit: Martin TompkinsGreg Cordez is heading into the studio later this year to record the follow-up to his well received debut “Paper Crane.” (link to review below) The UK-born, […]
Following on from their appearance at the London Jazz Festival (video above) Tom Harrison’s sextet, including guest US saxophonist Meilana Gillard will be performing the music of Sonny Fortune on 1st April […]
Kalle Kalima – High Noon(ACT 9596-2. CD review by Henning Bolte) As its title High Noon suggests, this album has to do with cowboys and western movies. Cowboys are a real myth, […]
Emily Wright and Nick Malcolm of Moonlight Saving TimeThis year’s fourth Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival runs from 18th-20th March. Jon Turney has already written about the headliners (link below). In this […]
Mike Gibbs (right) thanking the NDR big band as theyacknowledge the applause from a full houseThird and fourth nights of the 2016 WDR 3 Jazzfest 2016(Theater Münster, 30th and 31st January 2016. […]
Spectrum Orchestrum – Suburbs (Own label/bandcamp – CD Review by Peter Slavid)I enjoy finding new bands. and there’s a special pleasure in coming across one that doesn’t seem to appear anywhere on […]
Trumpeter/composer Laura Jurd has the launch gig for her second album “Human Spirit” on the Chaos Collective label on 14th January at The Forge, and is touring. Sebastian interviewed her about it:LondonJazz […]
Jilman Zilman – Das Zweite und Letzte Album(In Gute Haende. CD Review by Peter Slavid)One of the challenges of listening to some of the more obscure European music is that it isn’t […]
Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow and Bobby Previte – The New Standard (RareNoiseRecords RNR 041. CD review by Andy Boeckstaens)Keyboard player Jamie Saft is best known as a member of New York’s exploratory […]
