Harold López-Nussa — Te Lo Dije (Free stream on demand. EFG London Jazz Festival 2020. First broadcast 17 November. Review by AJ Dehany) Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa’s album Te Lo Dije (2020) […]
Harold López-Nussa (2020 EFG LJF)
Yazz Ahmed’s Polyhymnia at Sage Gateshead
Yazz Ahmed’s Polyhymnia (Sage Gateshead livestream 14 November 2020. Review by AJ Dehany) Polyhymnia is the Greek Muse of sacred poetry, hymn and dance, a deep thinker credited with inventing the lyre, […]
Review of Jazzfest Berlin 2020
Jazzfest Berlin was livestreamed from various venues across Berlin and New York, 5-8 November 2020. Review by AJ Dehany: The 57th edition of Jazzfest Berlin was completely online via livestream and on […]
Django Bates & Frankfurt Radio Big Band — ‘Celebrating Charlie Parker’
Django Bates & Frankfurt Radio Big Band — Celebrating Charlie Parker (Alte Oper, Frankfurt, 28 October 2020. Reviewed from livestream by AJ Dehany) 2020 is many things, not least the centenary of […]
Jonathan Chung, Glasshopper (debut album “Fortune Rules”)
Glasshopper’s long-awaited debut album Fortune Rules is a significant step forward for the trio, expanding and refining the group’s sound, instrumentation and ambition. AJ Dehany spoke with saxophonist Jonathan Chung over Zoom. […]
SHUFFLE – Luxembourg Jazz Meeting 2020 (27-29 November)
Shuffle is the fifth edition of the biennial Luxembourg Jazz Meeting, a vital showcase of the vibrancy of the Luxembourg scene. A labour of love, in 2020 the three-day festival stands as […]
Emma-Jean Thackray – “UM음 YANG양”
Emma-Jean Thackray – UM음 YANG양 (Night Dreamer Records ND006. Review by AJ Dehany) Composer and trumpeter Emma-Jean Thackray outlines the manifesto of her label Movementt in a way that is germane to […]
Huw V Williams – “Equidistant Between”
Huw V Williams – Equidistant Between (Self-release. Album review by AJ Dehany) “I evolve,” he says, “but I don’t… revolve…” At a time when every man of a certain age has deliberately […]
Euphorials – “Konstance / Disposable Values”
Euphorials – Double EP: Konstance / Disposable Values (F-IRE Label, F-IRECD103. Review by AJ Dehany) The debut double EP by duo Euphorials brings an appealing soulful contemporary musical style and production to […]
In lockdown with… jazz club manager Kathianne Hingwan
Kathianne Hingwan is the general manager of the Vortex Jazz Club. As part of her work there, she has created and developed a number of new strategic projects including The Shape of […]
Pascal Schumacher (new album “SOL” for release on 5 June 2020)
Vibraphonist Pascal Schumacher’s latest album SOL will be released via Neue Meister today, 5 June 2020. It was recorded last year over several days in residence at the Opderschmelz, the regional cultural […]
Liam Noble’s Saturday afternoon concerts
Liam Noble’s Saturday afternoon concerts (Twitch TV. 18 April 2020. Livestream Review by AJ Dehany) While we’re waiting for the lockdown to ‘flatten the curve’ of the viral spread, we’re watching another […]
Dutkiewicz/Niedziela/Orzechowski/ Stankiewicz/Tokaj/Wyleżoł – “Piano Sketches”
Atur Dutkiewicz/Wojciech Niedziela/Piotr Orzechowski/Kuba Stankiewicz/Michał Tokaj/Piotr Wyleżoł – Piano Sketches (AC Records 13. CD review by AJ Dehany) Creative limitations release the imagination. As anyone trying to write or work creatively […]
Dave Holland, Evan Parker, Craig Taborn and Ches Smith – QW3 (Vortex Fundraiser Track)
AJ Dehany writes: I originally bought the fundraiser track QW3 just to lob a few quid at the Vortex, the Dalston jazz club and charitable foundation that seems to miraculously survive despite […]
Iiro Rantala – “My Finnish Calendar”
LIVESTREAM REVIEW: Iiro Rantala – My Finnish Calendar (livestream https://live.keikalla.fi/) Scottish comedian Billy Connolly said that Glasgow has only two seasons: winter and July. We’re mostly used to thinking of four, but […]
