Black Lives in Music, based near Kings Cross, is on Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023 (list below), a list which also includes OpenAI, Disney, Tiffany & […]
Saxophonist duo, father and son Stan and Matt Sulzmann will play with their quintet at Vortex Jazz Club this Saturday 4 March. The set features some never-before-heard newly commissioned music, as well […]
Cardiff-based pianist Eddie Gripper reflects on the life events that inspired his exceptional debut album: “This music comes from a very deep place in my heart”. Album feature by John Bungey: For […]
Alessio Menconi/Nigel Price Quartet – Live At Peggy’s Skylight (Nervy Nigel Records NERVYCD003. Album review by Mark McKergow) This superb live performance brings together two titans of European jazz guitar for a […]
“Mothers In Jazz” is a new series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry […]
Terence Blanchard, E-Collective, Turtle Island String Quartet (Ronnie Scott’s, 15 February 2023. First House. Review by Sebastian Scotney(*)) Maybe one should just admit that what a band of musicians at the level […]
-Jim Snidero, feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel, w/ Orrin Evans, Joe Farnsworth & Peter Washington – Far Far Away (Savant Records SCD2207. Album Review by Richard Lee) Here’s an album of great virtuosity, pitch-and-beat-perfect […]
Run Logan Run at Sage Two (Sage Gateshead, Sage Two, 18 February. Review by AJ Dehany) Run Logan Run, the longstanding duo of Andrew Hayes and Matt Brown, can certainly play. To […]
Among the jazz centenaries in 2023 is that of pianist New York pianist Elmo Hope (1923-1967). The Herwig Gradischnig-Claus Raible Quintet has made a speciality of performing Hope’s music, and includes two […]
Between 1989 and 1995, Concord Records produced 42 solo piano recitals, all recorded in Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley in California. Each recital featured a different jazz pianist; the series eventually consisted of 42 CDs. The entire […]
The nominees in 27 of the 31 categories (*) of the third edition of the German Prize are announced. The Awards Ceremony will be at the jazzahead! trade fair in Bremen on […]
Vocalist/ saxophonist Kim Cypher has just released a new video at 2pm, today 24 February 2023: Kim Cypher has written: “It’s good to dream and it’s good to reach for the stars. […]
Drummer and conga-player RJ Spangler runs the Eastlawn record label in Detroit. He’s playing on two new recordings: Spangler talked about finding rare Ellington tunes to record, and long-standing musical collaborations in […]
Tim Garland and Jason Rebello – Life to Life (Whirlwind Recordings – WR4799. Album review by Jon Turney) Duos don’t come better matched than this partnership. Tim Garland and Jason Rebello have […]
John Wheatcroft – First Light (Self-released. Album review by Nigel Price) It’s long been known that there’s an amazing guitarist lurking in Liverpool by the name of John Wheatcroft. We don’t hear […]
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