Vocalist Nicky Schrire (*), London-born, Cape Town-raised, and now Toronto-based, hosted a London launch for “Nowhere Girl”, the first album she has released in a decade. Bruce Lindsay has reviewed it for […]
Nicky Schrire at Pizza Express Soho
Ethan Iverson Trio at Vortex Jazz Club
Ethan Iverson Trio – with Conor Chaplin and Andreu Pitarch (Vortex. 5 August 2022. Live review by Jon Turney) A rare opportunity to hear the polymathic pianist in a small club – […]
Emma Smith – ‘Meshuga Baby’
Emma Smith – Meshuga Baby(Wingsor Castle Records. Album review by Leonard Weinreich) Call me a pedant, but shouldn’t this album title read ‘Meshuga Bubbele’? For non-Yiddish speakers, the expression ‘meshuga’ has multiple […]
Tim Garland – Vigil Songbook (Band on the Wall, 29 May / Ronnie Scott’s, 1 June)
Since his emergence an an artist in the late ‘80s, Tim Garland has firmly established an international reputation as one of Britain’s foremost saxophonists and composers. Some highlights of his career include […]
Malcolm Earle Smith – ‘Vocal Intent’
Malcolm Earle Smith – Vocal Intent(Self-released via Bandcamp. Album review by Leonard Weinreich) Few jazz instrumentalists were consummate jazz vocalists, most notably Louis Armstrong (who invented the art), Fats Waller, Nat Cole […]
NCW4 (Nick Costley-White 4) first gig at Sound Cellar, Poole, Dorset
NCW 4 (Nick Costley-White, Ivo Neame, Conor Chaplin, Lewis Wright) (Sound Cellar, The Avocet, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset. 20 January 2022. Live review by Paul Kelly) The post-industrial seaside Dorset town of Poole […]
Lauren Bush – ‘Dream Away’
Lauren Bush – Dream Away (out 15 October 2021) (CD review by Mark McKergow) London-based vocalist Lauren Bush’s second album Dream Away is her follow-up to 2016’s All My Treasures. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable collection with great performances throughout […]
Jazz at the Oxford (Kentish Town) is Back from 2 August
Will Arnold-Forster has just been in touch about the resumption of Monday night gigs to restricted audiences at the Oxford Tavern in Kentish Town The programme for the first few weeks is […]
Tom Ollendorff – (‘A Song For You’, debut album on Fresh Sounds)
Guitarist Tom Ollendorff’s debut album is out on Barcelona’s Fresh Sounds label. As John Fordham writes in this feature to mark the release: “Ollendorff’s musicianship has already taken him all over continental […]
Dinosaur at Kings Place (2020 EFG LJF)
Dinosaur (Livestreamed from Kings Place, EFG London Jazz Festival 15 November 2020. Review by John Bungey) As an emergency new medium, the online-only gig has yet to reach perfection. When Dinosaur ended […]
James Copus – “Dusk”
James Copus – Dusk (Ubuntu Music UBU0058. CD review by Mark McKergow) At just 25 years of age, trumpeter James Copus has rapidly been making a name for himself on the London jazz scene. A graduate […]
Dave Storey Trio – “Jouska”
Dave Storey Trio – Jouska (Impossible Ark Records IALP 026. Download review by Mary James) In the Icelandic language there are 46 words for snow. In English we have just one. So […]
Catenaccio at the Spice of Life
Catenaccio (Spice of Life, 24 July 2019. Review by Lauren Bush) Catenaccio is Tom Cawley’s most recent undertaking as a band leader. It delves into his love of football and synthesisers and it’s hard to tell […]
