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 (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 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’ (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 (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(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‘ (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’ (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 (ACT 9929-2. CD Review by Adam Sieff) Guitarists Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine have history going back to […]
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 […]
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 (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 (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 (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 […]
Charles Tolliver – Connect (Gearbox Records GB1561. Review by Adam Sieff) Now 78 years old, trumpeter and composer Charles Tolliver truly deserves full-on legendary jazz hero status. Dizzy Gillespie loved his playing, […]
