Kevin Sun (Jazz Gallery, NYC. ❤ Bird Album launch. 19 August 2021. Review by Dan Bergsagel) 2020 marked the centennial of Charlie Parker’s birth. Tributes – like nearly everything else last year […]
The 34th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features a powerful trio who breathe as one. Yes, it’s Tommy Flanagan, so you get impeccable, beautifully articulated piano playing. But this is also about […]
Annabel Williams is THE vocal coach. She has had the role for nearly a decade at both X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent. She has worked with over two hundred chart-topping artists. […]
“Musician, sound engineer, record producer, author, painter.” and former club owner. The great British bassist Peter Ind passed away last night, 20 August 2021, at the age of 93. Bassist Peter Ind, […]
Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The News (ECM 3520703. CD review by Jon Turney) This superb follow up to the great drummer Andrew Cyrille’s 2016 quartet release The Declaration of Musical Independence reunites […]
Inntöne Festival 2021 (Diersbach, Austria. 30 July-2 August. Festival Report by Oliver Weindling) To be able to go to a festival where there seems to be little restriction (as all the work […]
Mo Foster and Friends In Concert (RTR171C. Album Review by Adam Sieff) As one of the world’s premier electric bass players, Mo Foster commands the respect and admiration of his peers. Although […]
FONT, the Festival of New Trumpet Music, was co-founded by Dave Douglas and the late Roy Campbell Jr. in 2003. As another Festival approaches, Dave Douglas explains in an email interview the […]
The great Peter King (1940-2020) passed away on 23 August, 2020, just a few days after his 80th birthday, To mark the first anniversary of his passing, drummer Stephen Keogh has organised […]
The 33rd of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) is all about the horns. Among early releases from the World Saxophone Quartet, this live set stands out, as live sets often do. […]
Tony Coe & John Horler – Dancing In The Dark (Gearbox GB1567 CD and vinyl. Review by Mark McKergow) Two of our most distinguished jazz musicians intertwine their musical journeys for an […]
Jenny Green – Always and Forever (Soup to Nuts Productions. Album review by Frank Griffith) Singer, radio show host and doer of all things jazz in West Sussex, Jenny Green has just […]
Becca Wilkins and Gestalt (Vortex. 12 August 2021. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Becca Wilkins, originally from Kent and based in London, is a young singer who acknowledges influences from European singers such […]
An hour of unrehearsed live interaction on a festival stage back in 2007 provides John Fordham with ‘a rejuvenating late-career bonus at the end of a sombre year for performing artists’. He […]
After last year’s enforced cancellation, the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music is back, and for London residents with an adventurous bent, it’s definitely worth the three-hour train journey to see […]
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