
Oded Tzur – Isabela (ECM Records – ECM 2739. CD Review by Graham Spry) From the very first notes of the opening track on saxophonist Oded Tzur’s latest album Isabela, there is […]
Oded Tzur – Isabela (ECM Records – ECM 2739. CD Review by Graham Spry) From the very first notes of the opening track on saxophonist Oded Tzur’s latest album Isabela, there is […]
Monheim Triennale (Monheim-am-Rhein. 22-26 June 2022. Festival Round-Up by Tony Dudley-Evans) The Monheim Triennale is a festival in Monheim-am-Rhein, an attractive small town by the Rhine, roughly half-way between Cologne and Düsseldorf. […]
In the latest of LJN’s series where musicians consider idols, or formative influences, Liam Noble writes about composer and multi-reedist Henry Threadgill, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016 and an NEA […]
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival has a special offer: a digital pass offering online access to twenty of the concerts during the festival. The full list of the concerts available via the […]
The biggest (*) jazz festival in the world is back. The 42nd Montreal International Jazz Festival starts this Thursday 30 June. It has a very special atmosphere where crowds flock to the […]
Jemma Freese – Shadowboxing (Available from Bandcamp – link below. Album review by AJ Dehany) Whether thrashing a keyboard with indie art-rockers Maxïmo Park, hammering avant-hard jazzpunk soundscapes with trio J Frisco, […]
Jerry & The Pelican System aka Jerzy Mączyński, a young Polish jazz and experimental saxophonist and composer, will present music from his latest release “Sariani”, combining electronic ambient textures with a deeply […]
Emma Smith – Meshuga Baby(Wingsor Castle Records. Album review by Leonard Weinreich) Call me a pedant, but shouldn’t this album title read ‘Meshuga Bubbele’? For non-Yiddish speakers, the expression ‘meshuga’ has multiple […]
The Jazz Weekend of the Buxton International Festival 2022 will present something of a coup, the first appearance since 2015 of The Impossible Gentlemen, in what is described as a “2022 version” […]
Sarah Chaplin, who runs the jazzlondonlive.com listings website, which since 2017 has been the online successor to Jazz in London, also does a weekly jazz radio show for Brooklands Radio (DAB and […]
Chris Potter, Martin Luther McCoy, Gretchen Parlato, Etienne Charles, David Sanchez, Edward Simon, Warren Wolf, Matt Brewer & Kendrick Scott (Barbican, 25 June 2022. Live review by Charles Rees) In celebration of […]
London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) ‘Hysterical and Happy’ Concert (Woolwich Works, 19 June 2022; review and drawings by Geoff Winston) The final date of LCMF 2022 included three standout solo performances – […]
Ricky Ford – The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford: Paul’s Scene (Whaling City Sound. Album Review by Adam Sieff) The great tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford (b.1954) as made a hugely enjoyable album […]
Bill Ortiz – Points of View (Left Angle Records. Album review by Bruce Lindsay) Trumpeter Bill Ortiz spent sixteen years as a member of Santana. The job may not have made him […]
The momentum behind Nigel Price’s campaign to bring support to grassroots jazz promoters has been picking up momentum in a matter of just a few weeks: Grassroots Jazz is now a registered […]
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