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 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 (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 (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 – 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 […]
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 […]
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 (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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sam Gendel – Satin Doll (Nonesuch 075597922158. CD Review by AJ Dehany) Sam Gendel’s Satin Doll deconstructs jazz standards in a woozy crunk of dense electronic synthwave dreamscapes. With an ideally quirky […]
Writer AJ Dehany and photographer Monika S. Jakubowska combine their impressions of Rodney Green’s ‘Jackson Miller’, making their London Debut at Pizza Express Jazz Soho on Sunday 1 March 2020: “My name […]
BRÅK Festival of Improvised Music (Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton. 29 February 2020. Review by AJ Dehany. Photos courtesy of BRÅK) There’s a smart little place called waterintobeer in Brockley that stocks […]
Arun Ghosh Quartet + Archipelago (Middlesbrough Sunday Jazz in the Crypt February 2020 edition. Review by AJ Dehany) Arun Ghosh’s music has a kaleidoscopic melodicism that sounds naturally exotic without contriving to […]
