Charlie Gabriel – Eighty Nine (Sub Pop SP1490. Album Review by Adam Sieff) Charlie Gabriel is a fourth generation New Orleans jazz musician and the most senior member of the Preservation Hall […]
Charlie Gabriel – ‘Eighty Nine’
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – ‘First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings’
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note. Album Review by Adam Sieff) This really is quite a find. In early 1961 a […]
Chelsea Carmichael – ‘The River Doesn’t Like Strangers’
Chelsea Carmichael – The River Doesn’t Like Strangers (Native Rebel Recordings. Album review by Adam Sieff) Over the last few years since graduating from Trinity Laban Conservatoire, the Manchester-born and London-based tenor […]
Andrew Cartmel, Frank Griffith and Adam Sieff (new jazz radio shows)
Andrew Cartmel, Frank Griffith and Adam Sieff are three familiar names to LJN readers. All three have recently taken to the airwaves with their own jazz radio shows. Feature/ interviews by Izzy […]
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber – ‘Angels Over Oakanda’
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber – ‘Angels Over Oakanda’ (Avant Groidd Musica. Album review by Adam Sieff) Burnt Sugar is a New York based improv unit currently comprising over two dozen members […]
Steve Tyrell – ‘Shades of Ray: The Songs of Ray Charles’
Steve Tyrell – Shades of Ray: The Songs of Ray Charles (New Design Records/Arts Music. Album Review by Adam Sieff) Steve Tyrell is a larger-than-life 76 year old who has practically done […]
Samara Joy – ‘Samara Joy’
Samara Joy – Samara Joy(Whirlwind Recordings WR4776. Album review by Adam Sieff) There have been plenty of good things written about the 21- year-old New Yorker Samara Joy since she won the […]
Kippie Moeketsi and Hal Singer – ‘Blue Stompin’ ‘
Kippie Moeketsi and Hal Singer – Blue Stompin‘ (WABB-091 . Album Review by Adam Sieff) Any release featuring South African alto saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi (1925-1983) is to be warmly welcomed. This is […]
‘The Indigenous Afro-Jazz Sounds of Philip Tabane and his Malombo Jazzman’
The Indigenous Afro-Jazz Sounds of Philip Tabane and his Malombo Jazzman’ (WABB-090. Album review by Adam Sieff) This is yet another South African vinyl reissue of great interest from Canadian label We […]
Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine – ‘Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XI: The Last Call’
Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine – Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XI: The Last Call (ACT 9929-2. CD Review by Adam Sieff) Guitarists Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine have history going back to […]
Mike Bono – ‘Familiar Places’
Mike Bono – Familiar Places (La Reserve – digital only. CD Review by Adam Sieff) Mike Bono’s name may be unfamiliar, but now I realise that, unknowingly, I’ve already heard his guitar […]
Deal Music & Arts (Virtual) Creative Jazz Weekend (27 – 29 November)
Norma Winstone, NYJO (with Joe Browne and the NYJO Ambassadors), and LJN writer Adam Sieff feature in a new event, Deal Music & Arts Virtual Creative Jazz Weekend which will run from […]
Oz Noy – ‘Snapdragon’
Oz Noy – Snapdragon (Abstract Logix ABLX063. CD review by Adam Sieff) I first saw the Israeli-born and New York-based guitarist Oz Noy play when he was a member of the great […]
Frank Woeste – “Pocket Rhapsody II”
Frank Woeste – Pocket Rhapsody II (release 30 October) (ACT 9917-2. CD revew by Adam Sieff) The pianist and composer Frank Woeste moved from Hanover to Paris in 1999 to study at […]
Neil Swainson Quintet – “49th Parallel”
Neil Swainson Quintet – 49th Parallel (Reel to Real Vinyl: RTRLP004, CD: RTRCD004, and Digital. Album review by Adam Sieff) 49th Parallel was Neil Swainson’s only recording as a leader during a […]
