
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 (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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 (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 […]
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 […]