Stefan Aeby – Piano Solo (Intakt Records CD332. CD review by Brian Marley) Stefan Aeby’s 2018 Intakt release, The London Concert, featured a standard piano trio. A very good trio. On Piano […]
Stefan Aeby – “Piano Solo”
Sirkis/Bialas IQ – Our New Earth
Sirkis/Bialas IQ – Our New Earth (MoonJune Records MJR099. CD review by Adrian Pallant) In his liner notes to Our New Earth, esteemed drummer Bill Bruford references the dual basis of this […]
American Jazz Week featuring Kirk Lightsey and Jean Toussaint in Passau, Germany
“The Real Thing” – American Jazz Week featuring Kirk Lightsey and Jean Toussaint (Cafe Museum, Passau 28, 29 December 2019. Review by Oliver Weindling) A band including Detroit piano great Kirk Lightsey […]
Andrea Brachfeld – Brazilian Whispers
Andrea Brachfeld – Brazilian Whispers (Origin 82795. CD Review by Sam Norris) Flautist Andrea Brachfeld’s CV reads like a who’s who of Latin jazz. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, […]
Jazz Journeys: Everyday Life exhibition (Centrala, Birmingham 15 Jan – 1 Feb)
Freelance photographer Brian Homer and jazz scholar Dr Pedro Cravinho got together to investigate the “other lives” that jazz musicians have. The result is an exhibition called Jazz Journeys: Everyday Life, a […]
LJN writers’ and friends’ jazz highlights of 2019
We asked our writers and friends to each submit one Jazz Highlight of 2019. Here are the results: Rob Adams: Pianist Euan Stevenson and saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski (aka New Focus) exploring The […]
Tommy Smith and the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra All Stars at The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
Tommy Smith and the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra All Stars (The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. 19 December 2019. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) As part of the Queen’s Hall’s 40th anniversary celebrations, […]
Paul Winter Consort & Friends – Everybody Under The Sun: Voices Of Solstice
Paul Winter Consort – Everybody Under The Sun: Voices Of Solstice (Volume I: The Singers) (Living Music. CD review by Peter Bacon) I have a very soft spot for Paul Winter. The […]
Guy Barker’s Big Band Christmas at the Royal Albert Hall 2019
Guy Barker’s Big Band Christmas (Royal Albert Hall. 19 December 2019. Review by Georgina Williams) Guy Barker’s Big Band Christmas at the Royal Albert Hall was a three-hour festive extravaganza. Because of […]
Woody Shaw Quintet – At Onkel Pö’s Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1979 Vol.1
Woody Shaw Quintet – At Onkel Pö’s Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1979 Vol.1 (Jazzline D77070. CD review by Mike Collins) A steady stream of live recordings from the ’70s and ’80s at Onkel Pö’s […]
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