Oxford jazz club The Spin was due to celebrate its 21st birthday in May 2020 when everything was cancelled… “I questioned whether I should carry on on my own,” says Pete Oxley, […]
Pete Oxley of The Spin, Oxford
Herts Jazz Festival (15-17 October 2021)
The Herts Jazz Festival returns in October, running from Friday 15 to Sunday 17. Preview by Peter Vacher: Oh, to be in Bishops Stortford at festival time. Well, that’s what it feels […]
Shez Raja : ‘Tales From The Punjab’
“It really is a miracle that I managed to record this album,” says Shez Raja. The highly rated bassist and bandleader travelled 4,000 miles to create Tales From The Punjab, his new […]
Pete Oxley (Short Film ‘Who Knows?’ by the Oxley-Meier Guitar Project featuring John Etheridge)
Guitarist Pete Oxley was looking forward to 2020, the year which marks both his 60th birthday and the twenty-first year of weekly gigs at The Spin, Oxford’s contemporary jazz club. The pandemic […]
Soft Machine – “Live at the Baked Potato”
Soft Machine – Live at the Baked Potato (DYAD Records, DY031. CD review by Jon Turney) Soft Machine Legacy dropped the third word from their name back in 2015, and released the […]
John Etheridge – TWENTY: the best of Sweet Chorus
John Etheridge – TWENTY: the best of Sweet Chorus (DY30 – CD review by Mark McKergow) This delightfully swinging collection of tracks is a fitting celebration of 20 years of Sweet Chorus, […]
