Tom Smith – Gecko (Digital download only. Basho Records SRCD58-2. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Tom Smith, jazz saxophonist? Perhaps like me you did a double take, wondering whether Scottish tenor saxophonist Tommy […]
Tom Smith – ‘Gecko’
Tom Smith (new album ‘Gecko’ – Basho Records)
“I want to try to take listeners on journeys they’ll remember,” says saxophonist and composer Tom Smith, whose debut album Gecko (Basho) has just been released. Profile by John Fordham: For a […]
A Jazz Musician’s Guide to the 2020 EFG London Jazz Festival
Last year, Sam Leak wrote a Jazz Musician’s Guide to the festival (link below) in which he played the role of ‘in-the-know’ tour guide, helping readers to navigate their way through the […]
Jonny Mansfield (‘Portrait’, an album in a day – 6 August)
Huddersfield-born Jonny Mansfield is a percussionist who specialises in vibraphone. His studies with Jim Hart at the Royal Academy of Music culminated in winning the Kenny Wheeler Prize, and the debut recording […]
Dominic Ingham Quintet – “Role Models”
Dominic Ingham Quintet – Role Models (Ingham Records INGHAM01. CD Review by Lavender Sutton) Dominic Ingham is probably best known as a member of the critically acclaimed jazz fusion band Bonsai but this […]
Marsden Jazz Festival (11-13 Oct) launches crowdfunder (aim: £10k by 21 July)
Peter Bacon reports: There is no easy way to fund a jazz festival, especially when a crucial part of the organisers’ philosophy is to expand the music’s reach via free access. Which […]
