
Miracle on 34th Street (Kansas Smitty’s film score livestreamed 24 December HERE. Review by Leah Williams) The much-loved and irrepressible Kansas Smitty’s band continue to be hugely creative with online formats: just […]
Miracle on 34th Street (Kansas Smitty’s film score livestreamed 24 December HERE. Review by Leah Williams) The much-loved and irrepressible Kansas Smitty’s band continue to be hugely creative with online formats: just […]
Pigfoot (Stream premiered on 21 November 2020 from Karamel. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Leah Williams) From the opening growl of Chris Batchelor’s muted trumpet and the equally purposeful yet joyful […]
Jazz Voice (Livestreamed from Cadogan Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival 13 November 2020. Review by Leah Williams) As the EFG London Jazz Festival kicks off this year, it is navigating – as […]
Leah Williams speaks to Armenian-American musician Areni Agbabian for International Women’s Day about the women who raised her musically, working with Tigran Hamasyan, and signing to ECM Records. Areni is best-known to […]
Cherise (Kings Place, 7 Feb 2020. Review by Leah Williams.) Cherise Adams-Burnett had an incredible whirlwind year in 2019, performing across the globe and being named Jazz FM Vocalist of the Year, […]
After a highly successful inaugural series of jazz concerts in 2019, Morley College has announced a new programme of five concerts to take place at the end of each month from 28 […]
Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science Community; Experiments in London (Kings Place, EFG London Jazz Festival, 16 November 2019. Review by Leah Williams.) Legendary drummer, composer and producer Terri Lyne Carrington is this […]
Nik Bärtsch & Sophie Clements (Barbican. EFG London Jazz Festival. 15 November 2019. Review by Leah Williams.) Marooned on an island made for one man and his piano, Nik Bärtsch sat surrounded […]
Launched in 2015, the Dot Time Records Legends series has so far given the world a whole range of incredible, unreleased music from greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Webster and Wolfgang […]
Jazz & the City, Salzburg – Part 2 (Various venues in Salzburg. 19-20 October 2019. Round-up by Leah Williams) New Orleans songstress Mykia Joven was the literal poster girl for Jazz & […]
Pianist, singer and composer Joy Ellis isn’t wasting any time. Just two years after the release of her debut album, her second one Dwell is coming out. Leah Williams spoke to her about […]
Jazz & The City Festival – Part 1 (Various venues, Salzburg, 17/18 October 2019. Round-up review by Leah Williams) Landing quite late on the second official day of Salzburg’s Jazz & the […]
ARQ (the Alison Rayner Quintet) are about to launch their third album, Short Stories, and will be touring over the coming months, including two London dates: The Albany in Deptford on 29 […]
There’s a new jazz festival in town and it’s bringing exciting, diverse acts from across the UK to Leytonstone. There will be a full day of both free and ticketed music taking […]