Manchester Jazz Festival (Manchester, 18-27 July 2014. Round-up by Adrian Pallant) Manchester Jazz Festival (mjf) Artistic Director Steve Mead seems to have the annual event off to a fine art. For 2014, not only did […]
Adrian Pallant will be reviewing 19th Manchester Jazz Festival for us. Looking forward to the festival, he offers half a dozen personal choices from the popular 10-day summer annual event. He writes: […]
E17 Large Ensemble. Photo credit: Ozgur Yuzak E17 Large Ensemble (Kings Place hall Two. 31st May 2014. Review by Filiz Taylan Yuzak ) E17 Large Ensemble a jazz quartet plus eight wind […]
Fran Hardcastle Fran Hardcastle introduces the theme of today’s special International Women’s Day celebration: International Women’s Day celebrates the achievements of women on a global scale. Over the past few years it […]
Adam Waldmann(Spires Jazz Club. Oxford. 23rd September 2013. Review by Alyn Shipton) Another decade, and another Pizza Express Jazz Club. This time, the initiative lies not with the restaurant chain but with […]
Compassionate Dictatorship(The Spin, Oxford. 11th July 2013. Review by Alyn Shipton) The new CD by this band Entertaining Tyrants on the Jellymould label is an attractive album that shows plenty of progress […]
Ivo Neame – Yatra(Edition Records EDN 1035. CD Review by Chris Parker) Dense, bustling, nervy music full of sudden twists and turns is multi-instrumentalist Ivo Neame’s speciality (his debut Loop release was […]
Left to Right: A representative of sponsor Good Impressions, Carlos Lopez-Real, Nick Tomalin, Brigitte BerahaTori Freestone, and awards presenter Paul Ross at the Waltham Forest ‘Love your borough’ awardsPhoto credit: Andrew Baker/ […]
Our regular Friday columnist Jack Davies previews the London Jazz Festival… I’m looking forward to the London Jazz Festival . Among the higher profile gigs I have my eye on in particular […]
Brigitte Beraha Sara Mitra previews four appearances by vocalist Brigitte Beraha during the 2011 London Jazz Festival Reading through the programme booklet for this year’s London Jazz Festival, I was overwhelmed by […]
If there is one piece of news this week which I know would have made John Dankworth proud, it would be to know that jazz is alive and well in the ‘Stow, […]
Jez Franks’ Compassionate Dictatorship. Cash Cows (FMR Records) (CD Review by Thomas Gray) The second album from Compassionate Dictatorship will resonate with fans of Partisans and Jonathan Bratoëff’s quartet with its effective […]
Bedford-born, Oxford-educated, Guildhall-trained alto saxophonist, composer , teacher, band-leader Carlos Lopez-Real is a real dynamo. He is the driving force behind e17 Jazz. I was flabbergasted to discover last night that he […]
E17 Jazz are announcing an all-day festival on Sunday 20th September. The day will culminate in a world premiere, a major new commission for large jazz ensemble by Liam Noble, featuring, among […]
