REVIEW: Mark Lockheart Quartet (Empire Bar Hackney. 11 December 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) Tenor titan Mark Lockheart’s new group is a bit of a beast: four heavyweight players presenting new compositions […]
The Shape Of Jazz To Come presents: Orphy Robinson & Mark Mondesir: “I heard you twice the first time” (Vortex, 10 December 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) Jazz Warriors alumni Orphy Robinson […]
Soweto Kinch: The Black Peril (EartH Hackney, EFG London Jazz Festival. 22 November 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) “Peaky Blinders meets W.E.B. Du Bois” is how Richard Coles on BBC Radio 4’s […]
Sebastian writes: LondonJazz News provides the most comprehensive coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. This year we have around 40 full length reviews. And yet… we are not covering more than […]
J to Z Late: Live… (RIBA, EFG London Jazz Festival, Saturday 16 November 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) Accessibility is a big theme in the London Jazz Festival. A music that can […]
Ronnie Scott’s 60th Anniversary Gala Concert (Royal Albert Hall. 30 October 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) On 30 October 1959, in that year of jazz masterpieces, British tenor saxophonist Ronnie Scott contributed […]
brand/beresford/edwards/sanders – all will be said, all to do again (Regardless R03 CD review by AJ Dehany) Samuel Beckett, the last modernist, curmudgeon and revered Irish poet, novelist and playwright, damned to […]
Melt Yourself Down (Lexington, 17 July 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) Melt Yourself Down’s eponymous 2014 debut album of abrasive party psych-punk launched them as the pioneers of a compelling new sound. […]
Manchester Collective – Paradise Lost (CLF Arts Cafe. 18 June 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) Manchester Collective’s Paradise Lost reimagines Milton’s great long poem as a soundclash between the Baroque and the […]
Sons of Kemet XL Photo credit: Christian Bertrand Primavera Sound 2019 (30 May-1 June, Barcelona. Festival Round-Up by AJ Dehany) Primavera Sound festival is as sprawling and eclectic as ever in its […]
Live Experience of the Year Winner:Kamasi Washington at Steamdown (with Nubya Garcia, right)Photo by AJ Dehany Sebastian writes: The Winners at the 2019 Jazz FM Awards have just been announced: The full […]
The Comet is ComingPublicity Photo REVIEW: The Comet Is Coming(The Haunt, Brighton. 3 April 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) The Comet Is Coming bring a cosmic groove music that exemplifies the galactic […]
Martin Ptak – River Tales (col legno WWE1CD20441. CD Review by AJ Dehany) River Tales is an instrumental song sequence onomatopoeically embodying the force and flow of the Danube. Throughout its allusive, alluvial […]
Scott Walker in the 1960’sPublicity Photo Dick Hovenga is a Dutch music journalist who writes for several print music magazines and is also the founder/editor/lead journalist of http://www.writteninmusic.com, widely considered to be […]
Corey MwambaPhoto credit: Brian Homer The Sequestering of Corey Mwamba(Baby People Studios, Derby. 23 March 2019. Report by AJ Dehany) An inspirational creative force in the music, Corey Mwamba is many things […]
