Review: John Turville Trio(606 Club, February 3rd 2010, review by Luke Pinkstone)The launch gig for John Turville Trio ’s new album Midas (F-Ire label) juxtaposed his original compositions with well-chosen standards. The […]
Deepest condolences to the Dankworth family on the death earlier today of one of the greatest figures in British jazz, Sir John Dankworth, at the King Edward VII hospital in London. Tonight […]
Review: Jan Garbarek Group(Barbican, January 31st 2010, review by Frank Griffith, photo by Mike Stemberg) The Jan Garbarek Group featuring Trilok Gurtu cast an uninterrupted two-and-a-half hour spell over a full house […]
Review: Lea DeLaria(January 28th 2010, 606 Club, review by Luke Pinkstone) Lea DeLaria has it all. She’s outrageously funny, controversial, and is the proud owner of a powerful set of vocal cords. She […]
“I want you all to get up and dance!” was brave Kate Luxmoore ‘s sudden, unexpected instruction to a half-full Purcell Room on the South Bank last night. She was ushering in […]
Review: Alyn Cosker Quartet(Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, January 27th 2010, Review by Peter Horsfall) Bassist Mike Janisch is bringing some big names to the Pizza Express club in Soho as part […]
A bit of Dankworth 1966 film music (Modesty Blaise) just to get you in the mood for the Dankworth Prize…. The winners of this year’s Dankworth Composition Prize have just been announced.The […]
Best Contemporary Jazz Album- 75Joe Zawinul and the Zawinul Syndicate Best Jazz Vocal Album- Dedicated To YouKurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltrane And Hartman Best Improvised Jazz Solo -4 Chicken (Terence […]
Frank Griffith will be reviewing last night’s Barbican concert for us. In the meantime here’s a good sideways-on view of the stage sent to me by Colin Buttimer/ http://www.eleventhvolume.com, and a short […]
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Here courtesy of someone called Yoshinobu from Tokyo, is an extraordinary nostalgia trip into British jazz of forty years ago. Follow this link Discographies via a treasure trove of clickable LP covers […]
Many congratulations to risen star jazz producer Peggy Sutton, senior producer on Jazz on 3, who has been nominated for an award at the UK Radio Academy’s inaugural Radio Production Awards in […]
Review: Peter Brötzmann/ Edwards/ Marsh/ Thomas(Cafe Oto, January 29th, Day 2 of a 3 day residency, review and illustration by Geoffrey Winston) “We finish the evening with a little short song.” A […]
I’ve just been at a fascinating two-day conference about German jazz under the heading “Jazz andBusiness”. Here’s my conference report, in the form of a (definitely unserious) A to Z. For more […]
PREVIEW:Loop Collective Festival 2010(17th-21st February, The Vortex.Preview by Peter Horsfall) Following 2009’s highly successful and first-ever Loop Festival, the influential London collective will present 17 gigs over four days in a flurry […]
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