“I love getting on stage and seeing people smile,” says New York guitarist JJ Sansaverino. He will bring his blend of smooth jazz, R&B, blues and reggae to Nell’s in West Kensington […]
Tenderlonious – You Know I Care (22a Music. Album review by AJ Dehany) You Know I Care is a purist jazz quartet album that encourages you to engage with questions of what […]
In his third and final dispatch from the Amazonas Green Festival in Manaus, Brazil, NYC writer Ted Panken places the focus on American musician Ed Sarath, who “divides his time between teaching, […]
Tara Minton plus Nick Willsher(606 Club. 23 August 2023. Live review by Sebastian Scotney) It’s just a hunch. No more than the slight inkling of a possibility. But on the evidence of […]
Sam Eastmond –John Zorn’s Bagatelles Vol 16(Tzadik Records. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) John Zorn’s Bagatelles Vol 16 consists of eight pieces arranged by Sam Eastmond and played by a 12-piece British […]
Cologne Jazz Week 2023, the third edition of the event, consisted of around 60 events. Tony Dudley-Evans was there for the final three days, and here is his report. Cologne Jazzweek is […]
Pianist/composer Laurie Holloway was a great friend of Michael Parkinson for several decades. He was Musical Director on Parkinson’s BBC show from 1998 until 2004, and then from 2004 to 2007 on […]
Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions(Jules Buckley Orchestra/ Cory Henry. Royal Albert Hall. 21 August 2023) Will it work? How is it going to work? Who will do it…will they be up to it? Perhaps […]
“This will be the 14th time I have toured the UK with my own band…It’s extremely important for jazz musicians to keep touring,” writes guitarist Nigel Price. His level of pro-activity is, […]
The Down for the Count Orchestra and soloists will perform “Songs from The Golden Age of Swing at Cadogan Hall, London, 10 September 2023, start time 6.30pm. Feature – which also explains […]
Prom 46: Manchester Collective: NEON(Royal Albert Hall, 19 August 2023. Review by AJ Dehany) A scrupulously-sequenced Late Night Prom of music entirely by living composers brought Manchester Collective’s third album NEON to […]
Herne Bay Jazz and Swing Festival (Herne Bay, Kent. August 19 & 20 Review by Adam Sieff) Kai Hoffman, East Kent’s answer to George Wein, runs a great little jazz festival in […]
Mondays With Morgan is a column in LondonJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves him – […]
Kyle Eastwood + Quintet + Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Dir. Gast Waltzing – ‘Eastwood Symphonic’(Pias France. Album review by Rob Mallows) When your surname is Eastwood…and your father just happens to be […]
Emma Rawicz – Chroma (ACT CD 9973-2. Album review by Jon Turney) Saxophonist Emma Rawicz’s second CD release, her debut on the ACT label, is an impressively accomplished affair, bristling with the […]
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