Jo Lawry – Acrobats(Whirlwind Recordings WR4798. Album review by Paul Kelly) Well here’s a surprise! Australian-born Jo Lawry is best known as a singer with Sting (‘backing singer’ rather under-rates her role I […]
Jo Lawry – ‘Acrobats’
Jo Lawry (new album ‘Acrobats’ with Allison Miller and Linda May Han Oh, and touring UK/Ire/Switz)
South Australia-born singer Jo Lawry’s new album “Acrobats” with bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Allison Miller, is released on Whirlwind Recordings on 10 February. There is also a UK/ Ireland/ […]
Linda May Han Oh Quartet at Pizza Express Soho (2022 EFG LJF)
Linda May Han Oh Quartet (Pizza Express Soho. 12 November 2022. Review by Jon Turney) A slow string bass groove deep enough to sink into, embroidered from the drums, was an immediately […]
Ant Law and Alex Hitchcock – Same Moon in The Same World
(Outside In Music. Available from Bandcamp. CD Review by Patrick Hadfield) Lockdown was a hard time for many people as they faced isolation, grief and the sudden loss of their livelihoods. But some […]
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey (EFG LJF 2021)
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey (Queen Elizabeth Hall. 14 November 2021. EFG London Jazz Festival . Review by Alison Bentley) “Do you feel good?” US pianist Vijay Iyer asked the […]
Vijay Iyer Trio + Kaja Draksler/ Susana Santos Silva at Jazzfest Berlin 2021
Vijay Iyer Trio with Linda Han-Oh and Tyshawn Sorey / Kaja Draksler & Susana Santos Silva (Pierre Boulez Saal, JazzFest Berlin 2021. Review by AJ Dehany) The Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin […]
Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints – ‘Other Worlds’
Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints – Other Worlds (Greenleaf GRE-CD-1084. Album Review by Alison Bentley) Not footprints, but Sound Prints: this US quintet led by Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas […]
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey – ‘Uneasy’
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey – Uneasy (ECM 3520696. Review by John Bungey) If I was one third of a piano trio (which luckily for the health of British […]
2020 EFG London Jazz Festival – Reviews
LondonJazz News provides by far the most extensive coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. Here is a list of the 2020 EFG LJF reviews completed so far by our writers. Most-reads so […]
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 […]
Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens – “In Common 2”
Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens – In Common 2(Whirlwind WR4728. CD Review by John Bungey) First, if you’re a lover of the noble art of album cover design, a word of […]
Pat Metheny – “From This Place”
Pat Metheny – From This Place (Nonesuch 075597924374 CD review by Peter Bacon) There is only one Pat Metheny but I remember a time when there were two Pat Metheny audiences. There was […]
