Ambleside Days Contemporary Music Festival(31 August to 3 September 2023, Zeffirelli’s, Ambleside. Round-up review by Mike Collins) The fifth edition of the Ambleside Days Contemporary Music Festival confirmed the staying power of […]
Trombonist/ improviser/ composer/ educator Raph Clarkson brings a higher purpose, a sense of positivity and deeply held ideals to everything he does. The new album by his group Dissolute Society is shaped […]
“What’s not to love! These musicians are beautiful, creative people and their personality just flows out through the speakers,” writes pianist/composer Steve Baker of the experience of working with Laura Jurd, Mark […]
Mark Lockheart – Dreamers (Edition Records, EDN1195. Review by Graham Spry) Mark Lockheart is a saxophonist and composer who first entered national consciousness in the 1980s with Loose Tubes, and was later […]
The Shrewsbury Jazz Network has supplied Shropshire and the West Midlands with concerts by the finest British jazz musicians for over 20 years, writes Charles Rees. The majority have taken place at […]
In our series in which musicians do a “deep dive” into the music of their inspirations, Nicky Schrire writes about ten favourite tracks by Norma Winstone. Norma Winstone is a storyteller. This […]
Live jazz looks likely to make a triumphant return to the North West in January 2021 courtesy of NQ Jazz. Since their inception in 2015, the Manchester-based live music promoters have hosted […]
Guitarist Pete Oxley was looking forward to 2020, the year which marks both his 60th birthday and the twenty-first year of weekly gigs at The Spin, Oxford’s contemporary jazz club. The pandemic […]
Alice Leggett is a Cardiff-born and London-based saxophonist and composer. Graduating from Trinity in 2017, she’s already made her mark on London’s jazz landscape as an integral part of Calum Gourlay’s monthly […]
REVIEW: Mark Lockheart Quartet (Empire Bar Hackney. 11 December 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) Tenor titan Mark Lockheart’s new group is a bit of a beast: four heavyweight players presenting new compositions […]
Peter Bacon reports: Two UK jazz composer/improvisers are among the ten recipients announced this evening by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation in their 2019 Awards of Artists scheme. Mark Lockheart and Laura Jurd, […]
Mark Lockheart & Roger Sayer – Salvator Mundi (Edition Records EDN1132. CD review by Adrian Pallant) The power of music, to move and transport us in very personal and sometimes surprising directions, […]
