The new Europe Jazz Media Chart is out. We were welcomed in to the set-up last year, and since then Peter Slavid, Tony Dudley-Evans and Sebastian have been rotating the strike, as […]
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, […]
Misha Mullov-Abbado and Douglas Marriner (albums for 2020 / new JAZZTHETIK London Column)
Sebastian’s regular London Column in the new issue of the German magazine JAZZTHETIK (link to German text below) looks forward to new releases by 2020 releases from two musicians with a family […]
Blue Plaque unveiled at Ronnie Scott’s “Old Place” in Gerrard Street / Salute to Ronnie Scott’s at 60
Sebastian writes: At a ceremony today an English Heritage blue plaque in honour of Ronnie Scott was unveiled. The plaque marks the site of the first Ronnie Scott’s club, ahead of the 60th […]
The precarious British jazz world
Sebastian’s London Column, just published in the new September/October 2019 edition of the German magazine Jazzthetik, concerns the unpredictable and changing circumstances that affect jazz festivals in England, and the way organizers […]
English jazz and the Somerset connection
Sebastian’s regular London Column appears today in the July-August issue of the German magazine JAZZTHETIK (available throughout the German-speaking world). Here is the new column in English on the theme of…Somerset: Question: […]