Outlines (Byrne/Malcolm/Ward/Nash/Brice/Lisle) (The Globe, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Sunday 26 March 2023) The brainchild of composer and saxophonist Dee Byrne, Outlines is a strong set of fascinating original compositions realised by something of a […]
Christine Tobin – Returning Weather (Trail Belle Records TBR05. Review by AJ Dehany) Returning Weather is Irish composer-singer Christine Tobin’s nine-part meditation on the nature of home and homecoming. This fine evocative […]
Clown Core (Bimhuis, Amsterdam. 3 March 2023, 2nd night of 3. Live review by AJ Dehany) Any Dutch music festival is just one pumpkin away from a brain-melting musical aneurysm. At Rewire […]
Sam Gendel – COOKUP (Nonesuch Records 7559790713. Album review by AJ Dehany) COOKUP, the latest batch from Sam Gendel, prolific multi-instrumentalist majoring in ‘saxofone’, is a microwave meal of an album that […]
Reis Demuth Wiltgen with Emile V. Schlesser — Synaesthesia ( SHUFFLE LX —Opderschmelz, Dudelange, Luxembourg. 26 November 2022. Live review by AJ Dehany) “I can see colours dancing in my head. I […]
Bendik Giske (King’s Place Hall Two. 19 November 2022. Review by AJ Dehany) Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske’s performances are shamanic studies of physicality, vulnerability and endurance, made with just the body, breath, […]
Led Bib and Anthropods at the Vortex The true finale to the 2022 London Jazz Festival was an evening of completely new music from the mind of New Jersey-born drummer, composer and […]
Richard Andersson, Per Møllehøj, Jorge Rossy – Inviting(Review by AJ Dehany) Here are three fine players relaxing into standards. Turn the clock back to 1995-2002 and the young Jorge Rossy was Brad […]
Ambient Jazz Ensemble – London Fields (Here & Now Recordings. Review by AJ Dehany) Ambient Jazz Ensemble is a provocatively misdirecting moniker – not so much ambient as atmospheric, closer in kin to […]
Médéric Collignon and the Gianni Gebbia Magnetic Trio – Ommagio a Sidney Bechet (Sicilia Jazz Festival 2022. Review by AJ Dehany) You won’t forget your first encounter with the mischief and mania […]
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, […]
FORJ – Our Space(Digital release only. Review by AJ Dehany) FORJ play music the way you want it to be played, with a creativity resistant to running orders but respectful to form […]
Bristol New Music 2022 (various venues in Bristol, 5-8 May) Angel Bat Dawid + Bendik Giske + Ligeti Quartet + Shirley Pegna/Dominic Lash/Angharad Davies + Kelly Jayne Jones + Sarah Davachi Gert […]
Jazz-funk fusion seven-piece Cong-Fusion’s debut album The World As We Know It is brimming with musical inspirations from Afro-Cuban music, jazz, funk and soul, with deep personal reflections on family, bullying, alcohol, […]
Phil Robson – Portrait In Extreme (Lyte Records LR050 digital. Album Review by AJ Dehany) Portrait In Extreme is an approachably avant-garde extended player that presents a thematic exploration of ‘extremity’ from […]
