Frank Lowe Quartet – Out Loud (Triple Point Records TPR 209. LP review by Andrew Cartmel)Frank Lowe (1943-2003) was a Memphis tenor man who followed a very intriguing career trajectory. He started off […]

Achille Oattara and Zouratie Kone of Afrikän Protoköl2014 Gaume Jazz Festival(Rossignol-Tintigny, Belgium. 8-10 August. Round-up review by Oliver Weindling)When you attend the Gaume festival in Eastern Belgium, you happily acquiesce to the […]

Joe Stoddart previews the upcoming Trinity Laban Inside Out Festival, taking place at various venues in Greenwich and across London from 22nd – 27th June. The festival begins on Sunday at Pizza Express, Dean […]

A concert in the sunshine at the Abbaye de l’Epau . Europa Jazz 2014Photo credit: Europa JazzEuropa Jazz(Le Mans, Sarthe, France. Various venues. 8-11 May 2014. Report by Oliver Weindling) Over the […]

Gino Robair’s I, Norton at St Gregory’s Centre for Music, CanterburyDrawing by Geoffrey Winston. © 2014. All Rights Reserved Gino Robair’s ‘I, Norton‘(CCCU Contemporary Music Ensemble at St Gregory’s Centre for Music, […]

 Sebastian interviewed bassist/composer Riaan Vosloo, who will be performing three concerts presenting ‘Foliage’, a ‘long-form graphic music score by composer/ guitarist Elliott Sharp that offers abstract instructions allowing for infinite possible interpretations […]

Elliot Galvin Trio – Dreamland(Chaos Collective CC003. CD Review by Adrian Pallant) The jangling toy piano offers a clue. From its impudent, clumsy, pealing intro to this Elliot Galvin Trio debut release, gradually disintegrating into […]

Elliot GalvinElliot Galvin Trio Dreamland CD Launch( The Forge, Camden, 30th January 2014. Review by Alison Bentley) Towards the end of the gig, pianist and composer Elliot Galvin took what looked like […]

Maroney, Hodgkinson, Lash and Lytton at VortexDrawing by Geoffrey Winston. © 2014. All Rights ReservedTim Hodgkinson, Dominic Lash, Paul Lytton, Denman Maroney(Vortex, 6 January 2014; review and drawing by Geoff Winston)This Vortex […]

The SPiKE Orchestra, led by Composers Sam Eastmond and Nikki Franklin, is a large-ensemble dedicated to their collaborative composition. They will be launching their début CD, ‘a Proper GrownUp’ at the Forge, Camden […]

“The music of Jajouka is trance music, ecstatic music, a music narcotic. From its source—a particular village in the southern Rif mountains of Morocco—this magical music has migrated around the world, moving […]

Photo Credit: Rupert ParkerNorth Sea Jazz Festival 2013(Ahoy Centre Rotterdam, July 2013. Round-up review by Rupert Parker)What’s great about this festival is the mixture of the old and the new, well established […]

The Crypt, Camberwell. Photo credit: John L. Walters. All Rights reservedJean Toussaint; Cloudmakers Trio  (Camberwell Crypt Jazz Club re-opening, 14th and 15th June 2013. Review by John L. Walters )Urbanists know that […]

Preview: The Twelveheads (new band from Peter Ibbetson) with Live Recording by Alex Bonney(Amersham Arms, New Cross, SE14. 5th March 2013 at 8:30pm. Preview by Peter Ibbetson)Since September 2011, I have been […]

Shatner’s Bassoon – Aquatic Ape Privilege(Wasp Millionaire Records. WM001. CD Review by Chris Parker)Admirers of one of TV’s most intelligent and wittily subversive programme makers, Chris Morris (it’s the Jesuit education), will […]