Ed Jones / Emil Karlsen – From Where Light Falls (FMR Records. Album Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) One feature of the contemporary jazz and improvised music scenes is that many players move […]
Ed Jones / Emil Karlsen – ‘From Where Light Falls’
‘Man of Words and Music – poet and trumpeter Shake Keane’: (Vortex Online – film premieres on National Windrush Day, 22 June 2021)
Vortex Online will premiere two short films under the title “Man of Words and Music – trumpeter and poet Shake Keane” next Tuesday, National Windrush Day. The full text of the press […]
Flat Earth Society Orchestra – ‘Boggamasta III’
Flat Earth Society Orchestra Boggamasta III (Igloo Records. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Flat Earth Society Orchestra, “the flagship of slightly deranged Belgian jazz” as they call themselves, is a big band that […]
‘Ongemang – Exploring the Spaces in Between’ – (Cafe OTO / Spitalfields Festival, 8 July)
Sebastian looks forward to Ongemang – Exploring the Spaces in Between. This is a premiere performance at Cafe OTO on 8 July, with Kit Downes, Lauren Kinsella and Tom Challenger, and is […]
Duke Ellington’s ‘Sacred Concert’ (Alexandra Palace, 17 July 2021)
Crouch End Festival Chorus will be performing Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert in a concert at Alexandra Palace on Saturday 17 July. In this preview feature, Russell Davies tells the story of how […]
Wadada Leo Smith – ‘Trumpet’ and ‘Sacred Ceremonies’
Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and Bill Laswell, Sacred Ceremonies (3CDs) / TUM Box 003 Wadada Leo Smith, Trumpet (3CDs) / TUM Box 002 Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and […]
Obed Calvaire, Bob Franceschini, Kevin Hays & Orlando Le Fleming – ‘Whole Lotta Love: The Music of Led Zeppelin’
Obed Calvaire, Bob Franceschini, Kevin Hays & Orlando Le Fleming – Whole Lotta Love: The Music of Led Zeppelin (Chesky Records. Album review by John Bungey) Jazz Led Zeppelin? Was this a […]
Five-Way Split at Toulouse Lautrec
Five-Way Split(Toulouse Lautrec. 12 June 2021. Review by Lavender Sutton) Toulouse Lautrec has been back in full swing for a few weeks now with everything from burlesque to singer-songwriters to life drawing […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021 (24. ‘Rag’ – Bill Frisell, This Land, 1992)
The 24th of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), perhaps the most influential guitar player of the last decades. Much of Bill Frisell’s later work finds him digging deeper into songs he […]
Jupiter Rising festival (Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, 28-29 August 2021)
AJ Dehany remembers the 2019 edition and looks forward to dipping a toe back in the water of music festivals: Styling itself as a Scottish Supernormal, the delayed third edition of the […]
Sinikka Langeland – ‘Wolf Rune’
Sinikka Langeland – Wolf Rune (ECM 3542600. Album Review by Alison Bentley) Once upon a time the jaw of a giant pike was made into a kantele – a kind of magical […]
Julian Lage – ‘Squint’
Julian Lage – Squint(Blue Note. Album review by John Bungey) If your local jazz club had a huge whip-round or received a vast council grant (OK I’m dreaming), who would you want […]
Magnus Skaug – ‘Anthems Vol.I’
Magnus Skaug – Anthems Vol.I (Øra Fonogram, OF177 – Album Review by Peter Slavid) This year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival has now been rescheduled for July. However, in happier times, the Saturday morning […]
Guido Spannocchi – ‘Perihelion’
Guido Spannocchi – Perihelion (Audioguido Records. Album review by Adrian Pallant) Cool as you like, Viennese alto saxophonist Guido Spannocchi’s Perihelion (a title referencing the position in the orbit of a planet […]
Keith Brown Trio – ‘African Ripples’
Keith Brown Trio – ‘African Ripples’ (Space Time Records. BG2150 CD review by Adam Sieff) I was very impressed with pianist Keith Brown’s playing on Charles Tolliver’s excellent Connect album released last […]
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