Ron Miles – Old Main Chapel(Blue Note. Review by Andrew Taylor-Dawson) Recorded in 2011 at a performance in Boulder. Colorado, ‘Old Main Chapel’ is a fine document of a collaboration between three […]
Chris Potter – ‘Eagle’s Point’
Chris Potter – Eagle’s Point(Edition Records EDN1227. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) Every so often a record comes along that shows such skill and control that you just want to sit back […]
Wolfgang Muthspiel – ‘Dance of the Elders’
Wolfgang Muthspiel – ‘Dance of the Elders’(ECM 2772. Album review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Dance of the Elders is the third ECM trio album led by Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel. It follows on […]
Norah Jones at the Royal Festival Hall (EFG LJF 2023)
Norah Jones(Royal Festival Hall. 16 November 2023. EFG LJF. Review by Lavender Sutton) This was Norah Jones‘s first European appearance since 2018. She has always been considered a “jazz” musician probably because […]
Mondays With Morgan: Billy Childs (new album ‘The Winds of Change’)
Mondays With Morgan is a column in LondonJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves him – […]
MoodSwing Quartet (Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Brian Blade) at the Barbican (2022 EFG LJF)
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade (MoodSwing Quartet) (Barbican. 14 November 2022. Live review by Charles Rees) Following its postponement in 2020 and 2021, MoodSwing Quartet finally made their […]
Jakob Bro Trio with Anders Christensen and Brian Blade at Flagey, Brussels
Jakob Bro Trio with Anders Christensen and Brian Blade (Flagey Studio 1, Brussels. Sunday 4 September 2022. Fourth night of four. Live review by Dick Hovenga(*) Dick Hovenga, who runs the Dutch […]
Edward Simon – “25 Years”
Edward Simon – 25 Years (Ridgeway Records. Review by Rob Adams) Venezuelan pianist Edward Simon hasn’t achieved anything like the following over here that a musician and composer of his capabilities and […]
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade – “Angular Blues”
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade – Angular Blues (ECM 0814506. Review by John Arnett) This album was recorded in Japan in one day in August 2018, shortly after the trio’s […]