The London premiere of a new, half-hour long documentary Howard Riley – Cheerfully Beyond Category will take place at the Vortex on Sunday afternoon 4 September. The film, which was first shown […]
The last(*) of Jon Turney’s weekly selections highlights a creative partnership of the first order. How to finish this series? The first of these pieces – back when 2021 felt like it […]
EDQ – They All Be On This Old Road: The Seven Dials Concert (Ogun OGCD 048. Album Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The last few years have seen some excellent re-issues of British […]
Keith Tippett’s very last performance was a duo set with Matthew Bourne on 12 Oct 2019, at Union Chapel in London. It is available as part of a two-CD set or as […]
Keith Tippett Weekend (Bristol Beacon and St. George’s Bristol. Fri 1 & Sat 2 October 2021. Live review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Friday evening: Rare Music Club (Bristol Beacon)The reaction from players, organisers […]
The unfailingly creative pianist and composer Keith Tippett, who died last Summer, worked in a remarkable range of styles and settings over 50 years of music-making. So the idea of an event […]
The 22nd of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) is a classic from the great Anglo-South African blending of the 1970s. This set, the first as named leader by the indomitable South […]
King Crimson – The Complete 1969 Recordings(Panegyric. CD review by John Bungey) Let’s time-travel back five decades to an era when jazz music and rock music fused in a febrile collision of […]
Tony Dudley-Evans writes in tribute to Keith Tippett Keith Tippett: A Major Figure in the British and European Jazz Scenes It had been known for some time that Keith Tippett was […]
Keith Tippett – The Unlonely Raindancer (Discus 81CD – CD review by Mark McKergow) This first-time-on-CD reissue of Keith Tippett’s first solo piano recordings from 1979 is an important reminder of his […]
