Paul Booth Quartet (Travel Sketches album launch) (Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, 27 August 2019. Review by Dominic Williams) On the hottest of nights, the coolest of jazz. Tenor saxophonist Paul Booth’s […]
The latest in the historical concerts presented by Richard Pite’s Jazz Repertory Company, focuses on a jazz icon, Miles Davis, and his annus mirabilis, 1959. Peter Vacher fills in the background to […]
Sebastian writes: The programme for this year’s fifth Brewin Dolphin Cambridge Jazz Festival has been announced. Among the stand-out features is the presence of no fewer than three Nordic saxophonists: Jan Garbarek‘s group […]
Marco Ambrosini’s Ensemble Supersonus – Resonances (ECM 776 3608. CD review by Peter Bacon) Looking for a timbral shift from the conventional instruments of jazz? Look no further. To listen to Ensemble […]
Olly Chalk Trio with John O’Gallagher (The Music Room, Liverpool. 24 August 2019. Review by Frank Griffith) On 24 August, The Music Room at Liverpool’s venerated Philharmonic Hall featured Suffolk-born, Birmingham Conservatoire-trained pianist Olly […]
Tom Pierson Orchestra – Last Works (Auteur 3491/92. CD Review by Frank Griffith) Tom Pierson‘s Last Works CD presents an overview of 40 years of his big band music. A cast of […]
Hevhet Fest (Kosice, Slovakia. 18-19 August 2019. Round-up by Oliver Weindling) The music, the attitude, the commitment in evidence at this showcase/festival organised by the Slovak Hevhetia label were an inspiration. Over […]
Prom 45 – Mississippi Goddam: A Portrait of Nina Simone (Royal Albert Hall. 21 August 2019. BBC Proms. Review by Rachel Coombes) Long-standing Nina Simone fans, and anyone who has seen the […]
Barb Jungr – Bob, Brel and Me (Kristalyn KLCDO6/Absolute. CD Review by Richard Lee) Barb Jungr‘s readings of (as she’s put it herself) “the men she loves” (male songwriters in this context) […]
Why was the sound of the Woody Herman Band’s Four Brothers so special – revolutionary even – and why does it still thrill today? With an exclusive Woody Herman’s Four Brothers Reunion happening […]
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