Abraham BrodyPublicity picture US-Lithuanian singer/composer ABRAHAM BRODY’s second album, Crossings, comes out on 16 November with an appearance at the London Jazz Festival on 18 November collaborating with innovative string quartet Wooden Elephant, […]
Ben Palmer directing the Covent Garden SinfoniaPhoto by Tom Elkins Max Richter: The Four Seasons Recomposed (Covent Garden Sinfonia. Purcell Room, Southbank Centre. 9 October 2018. Review by AJ Dehany) The tension between […]
Donny McCaslin (centre) onstage at ScalaPhone snap by AJ Dehany REVIEW: Donny McCaslin(Scala, London N1, 7 October 2018. Review by AJ Dehany) I love it when a band opens with their major […]
The Mingus Big Band at Iridium in New YorkPublicity Picture Highlights of the forthcoming Middlesbrough Jazz Weekender, which is a new event in the UK jazz calendar, include the Mingus Big Band, the Big […]
Paul Booth and Bansangu, Margate 2018Photo credit: Martin Goodsmith REVIEW: Margate Jazz Weekend 2018(Olby’s Soul Cafe and other venues in Margate. 21-23 September 2018. Review by AJ Dehany) Since its inception as […]
Paul Booth and the Bansangu OrchestraPublicity Photo/ Pathway Records Ahead of the Margate Jazz Weekend, AJ Dehany interviewed Adam Sieff, one of the Margate Jazz Festival team involved in this year’s event: […]
Youssou N’DourPhoto credit: BBC/Mark Allan Prom 65a: Youssou Ndour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar(Royal Albert Hall, 31 August 2018. Review by AJ Dehany) The music of Senegal has been passed down […]
The music stands were empty Steve Coleman and Five Elements(229 The Venue, 26 July 2018. Review and photos by A.J. Dehany) In London at the mid-point of a brisk European tour, alto […]
Gerald ClarkPhoto credit: © Krisztian Sipos River’s Tent is composer Gerald Clark’s second album as The Great Divide. A song sequence exploring lost time and rediscovered places, it features guests including Robert […]
Robert MitchellPhoto credit: Richard Kaby Robert Mitchell Solo(Jazz Cafe, 8 July 2018. Review by AJ Dehany) Silence is impossible, so he begins. He strikes, neither soft nor hard, one key: the F […]
Vijay Iyer at Unterfahrt in Munich in 2016Photo credit: Ralf Dombrowski REVIEW: Vijay Iyer Sextet (Jazz Cafe. 8 July 2018. Review by AJ Dehany) New York-based pianist Vijay Iyer was awarded a […]
L-R: William Henderson, Pharoah Sanders,Oli Hayhurst, Gene CalderazzoPhoto credit and © Andy Sheppard / lowlightphoto.co.uk Love Supreme 2018(30 June–1 July 2018, Glynde Place East Sussex. Report by John L. Walters) This is […]
Dana MurrayPublicity picture US drummer and producer Dana Murray’s album Negro Manifesto places him in the vanguard of a wave of artists getting under the skin of contemporary America. AJ Dehany spoke […]
Jasper Hoiby at Dean Street, June 2018Photo credit and © Mochles Simawi REVIEW: Phronesis – Walking Dark(Pizza Express Jazz Club, 15 June 2018. Review by AJ Dehany) Phronesis’s 2012 album Walking Dark […]
Nik Bärtsch’s RoninPhoto credit: Jonas Holthaus/ ECM Nik Bärtsch’s new album Awase (ECM) is the first with his Ronin group in six years, and Ronin’s first with a new bass player in a […]
