
Dave Gelly in the Observer Review writes about Ronnie’s from the perspective of nostalgia and undderstandably fond memory. You can read about jazz = nostalgia HERE .Julia Keller in the Chicago Tribune […]
Dave Gelly in the Observer Review writes about Ronnie’s from the perspective of nostalgia and undderstandably fond memory. You can read about jazz = nostalgia HERE .Julia Keller in the Chicago Tribune […]
In the next couple of weeks LondonJazz will feature London Jazz Festival previews/choices from a number of musicians, fans and friends.We’re keen to capture, to bottle that musician buzz. It’s where things […]
A story from right at the other end of our oldest motorway.*Leeds Jazz, the volunteer promoters who have done wonders to bring 350 bands to Leeds in 25 years, will almost certainly […]
Review Joshua Redman/Brad MehldauWigmore Hall, Thursday Ocetober 15th 2009Jazz musicians adapt. They always make the music work in the context. Brad Mehldau had given a lot of forethought into making music to […]
Next week sees a step-up in activity around the restrictions placed on live music by the 2003 Licensing Act and the Metropolitan Police’s Form 696.Monday October 19th: 7.30pm Inside Out on BBC1 […]
Saxophonist Christian Brewer has been in touch about the Tuesday gig he promotes at the Lower Ground Bar in West End Lane, NW6. I did a short piece about it in August.Next […]
Take a look at the Cheltenham Festivals Website. where the news is that Jamie Cullum (left) is to be Guest Director of the Jazz Festival for 2010. Take a look at the […]
Review: Lillian Boutte, (606 Club, October 12th 2009, by our Mystery Shopper from Chelsea)Lillian Boutte is probably known to most of you – a New Orleans native who has been touring the […]
Some people reckon they can always judge the quality of a Chinese restaurant by how many Chinese families eat in them. So, I’m asking myself this morning, after being at a gig […]
Abram Wilson launches a new CD on Dune Records at the South Bank – Purcell Room on Saturday October 24th at 7. 45 pm.All the world’s a stage. And so is the […]
Alto saxophonist, bandleader, record producer, source of energy Gilad Atzmon is off for the first time ever to China tomorrow, and I caught him just before he flies off. He was talking […]
*Love is the Answer, Barbra Streisand’s jazz standards album has just made it to the top of the US Billboard chart. The arrangements are all by Johnny Mandel, and the album was […]
Review: Salena Jones(Ronnie Scott’s , October 5th 2009. Review by Frank Griffith)American vocalist Salena Jones made a triumphant return to Ronnie Scott’s on Monday, backed by the stellar Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra […]
Review of Earl Okin by Sarah Ellen Hughes(Pizza Express Dean Street, October 5th, 2009)My pre-gig research about singer/songwriter/comedy performer Earl Okin had come up with just two things: one was a quote […]
We ran a competition for newsletter readers last week to come up with a pointless interesting fact about the theremin, an electronic instrument being featured in the F-IRE Festival (previewed here by […]
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