Georgia Mancio and Alan Broadbent – Quiet Is The Star (Roomspin Records. Album review by Denny Ilett) That glorious body of 20th Century musical work known as The Great American Songbook has […]
The twelfth of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), a beguiling piece of West coast freebop. Bobby Bradford’s long-standing Los Angeles based ensemble the Mo’ Tet had just the one studio recording, but […]
Neil Ardley – Kaleidoscope of Rainbows – Live ‘75 (Jazz in Britain JIB-21-S-CD/JIB-21-S-DL. Album Review by Jon Turney) Neil Ardley, active in UK jazz mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, left a […]
Stefanos Tsourelis Trio – The Wanderer (Self-release*. CD Review by Alison Bentley) Oud, guitar, jazz, and Greek and Turkish music – Stefanos Tsourelis describes himself as “…a musical wanderer, travelling to different […]
A central figure in UK and European jazz, Mike Westbrook, is 85 today, 21 March 2021. We (+) invited friends, colleagues and fans to wish him a very happy birthday. Alessandro Achilli: […]
Nicky Schrire, for LondonJazz News, reconnected with Thandi Ntuli (the two overlapped while jazz students at the University of Cape Town) to ask her about the new compilation of South African music […]
Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen – Live Recordings 2019-2020 (We Jazz Records WJCD32. Album Review by Adam Sieff) Two’s company, especially when it comes to saxophonists and drummers. Just listen to Binker […]
With his new album, “Afrofuturism”, Kansas City-born alto saxophonist Logan Richardson has started to achieve a number of long-held ambitions. He describes his processes, methods and objectives to Martin Longley: Right at […]
Jeff Colella – Love Music and it will love you back: Essays on Music (Mouthpiece Music. 118pp. e-book review by John Arnett) How to distil the essence of music and music making, […]
jazzahead! has just announced a new co-operation arrangement with the UNESCO-led International Jazz Day for this year’s digital edition. German Minister Monika Grütters and Dee Dee Bridgewater are announced as speakers for […]
Lionel Loueke (Unterfahrt Munich, 13 March 2021. Live review by Ralf Dombrowski) Review of a live concert at Unterfahrt. English version (*) first, then Ralf Dombrowski’s original German Tours these days aren’t […]
Shez Raja – Tales from the Punjab(Ubuntu Music, UBU0077. CD review by Adrian Pallant) A sultry sun silhouetting Badshahi Mosque and the Samadhi of Ranjit Singh in the cosmopolitan city of Lahore, […]
At the 2021 Grammys held on 14 March in LA, jazz and jazz-related winners included: Chick Corea (two), Maria Schneider (two), Kurt Elling/Danilo Perez, Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, […]
Adrian Younge – The American Negro (Jazz Is Dead Records – Album Review by Jane Mann) Californian lawyer-turned-musician Adrian Younge is a composer, recording engineer and producer who adores classic soul music. […]
Joachim Kühn – Touch the Light (ACT 9766-2. Album Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Put the words ‘music’ and ‘Ibiza’ in the same sentence and many people will visualise either superstar DJs pumping […]
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