The band with no name: Deurloo/Zawadzki/Chisnall (Ambleside Days Contemporary Jazz Festival, 31 August 2019. Review by Mike Collins) The Ambleside Days festival has an enticing roster of nightly gigs with an impressive […]
Mary Stallings – Songs Were Made To Sing (Smoke Sessions SSR-1903. CD review by Peter Vacher) Back in 1970, San Francisco-born vocalist Mary Stallings toured Britain with the Count Basie orchestra and […]
Howl Quartet and Howes3 (Vortex, Dalston. 31 August 2019. Review by Lauren Bush) Ubuntu Music has been signing and presenting some terrific acts in the last several years, and their showcase at […]
Up in Birmingham, Tony Dudley-Evans (TDE Promotions) and Andrew Woodhead (Fizzle) have a new programme of experimental music for their autumn season. Peter Bacon asked them about it: Tony introduced the season […]
Liam Noble – The Long Game (Edition Records. CD Review by Jon Turney) How might Liam Noble follow up his brilliant, widely-praised piano trio release of 2009, Brubeck, in which he took a collection […]
Sebastian writes: Michael Janisch’s label Whirlwind Recordings will be 10 years old in 2020. As a “pre-celebration” the label has launched a special edition of ten issues on vinyl. A pre-order period […]
Paul Booth – Travel Sketches (Ubuntu Music UBU0034. CD Review by Peter Jones) There is a calm, muscular authority in the playing of tenor saxophonist Paul Booth that makes it obvious why he […]
Prom 54 – Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music (Royal Albert Hall, 29 August 2019. Review by Lauren Bush) Duke Ellington’s sacred music was, to him, the most important project of his career. He […]
Sebastian’s London Column, just published in the new September/October 2019 edition of the German magazine Jazzthetik, concerns the unpredictable and changing circumstances that affect jazz festivals in England, and the way organizers […]
The Vinyl Detective – Classic Jazz Tracks curated by Andrew Cartmel (Vinyl Passion VP 90129. LP Review by Peter Jones) It had been a quiet day at the office. I’d let my […]
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