O’Higgins & Luft – Pluto (Ubuntu Music – UBU0126. CD Review by Graham Spry) In 2019, during what now seems a very different age and a long time ago before the pandemic, […]
O’Higgins & Luft – ‘Pluto’
Harvey/O’Higgins Project – ‘That’s The Way To Live’
Harvey/O’Higgins Project – That’s The Way To Live (Ubuntu Music UBU0094. Review by Leonard Weinreich) My late chum, Al, an omnivorous jazz fan, often referred wistfully to the kind of music that, if you were […]
Judith O’Higgins (Feature from German magazine JAZZTHETIK)
This is an English version of Sebastian’s regular “London Column” from the current issue (Nov-Dec 2020) of the German Magazine JAZZTHETIK, just out today, 28 October 2020: Surprises are normal for jazz, […]
David and Judith O’Higgins – “His ‘n’ Hers” album launch at the 606
David and Judith O’Higgins – His ‘n’ Hers album launch (606 Club. 10 October 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Jazz musicians who combine music with careers in medicine…what a very special group […]
Greetings and Birthday Wishes for Peter King at 80
One of the very great figures of British Jazz, saxophonist Peter King is eighty years old today. Colleagues, friends and fans send best wishes: JULIAN ARGÜELLES: Even now at the age of […]
Dave O’Higgins & Rob Luft – Play Monk & Trane
Dave O’Higgins & Rob Luft – Play Monk & Trane (Ubuntu UBU0029. CD Review by Peter Jones) In some ways it’s a slightly unexpected pairing – well-established tenor bopster Dave O’Higgins with […]
“O’Higgins and Luft play Monk and Trane” Album Launch at Pizza Express Dean Street
O’Higgins and Luft play Monk and Trane Album Launch (Pizza Express Dean Street, 7 October 2019. Review by Sebastian Scotney) “Technological progress has merely provided us with more effective means of going […]
Maria Schneider and the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra at Ronnie Scott’s
Maria Schneider and the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra (Ronnie Scott’s, 5 July 2019, early show. Review by Jon Turney) One of the great contemporary jazz composers, Maria Schneider’s intricately arranged music is […]
Trinity Buoy Wharf offers jazz on a summer’s day (23 June)
Peter Bacon reports: Say the words “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” and most of us recall the classic Bert Stern film documenting the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival on Rhode Island. But the […]
