Mike Westbrook – The Piano and Me (Download only; album review by Patrick Hadfield) The Piano and Me is Mike Westbrook’s third album of solo piano music in recent years, following Paris and […]
Mike Westbrook – ‘The Piano and Me’
Chris Biscoe – ‘Music Is: Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook’
Chris Biscoe – Music Is: Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook (Trio Records tr607. Album review by Jane Mann) This new release is the first that I have come across devoted entirely to […]
Mike Westbrook – ‘LONDON BRIDGE. Live in Zürich 1990’
Mike Westbrook – LONDON BRIDGE. Live in Zürich 1990 (Westbrook Records 011. Album review by Jon Turney) Mike Westbrook’s wonderfully extended career has covered a range from big bands to small groups […]
Mike Westbrook’s ‘Rossini Re-Loaded’ at West Road, Cambridge
Mike Westbrook & The Uncommon Orchestra. Rossini – Re-Loaded, Cambridge Modern Jazz at West Road Concert Hall , 27 September 2022. Review by Duncan Heining) Gioachino Rossini danced with the Count – […]
Mike and Kate Westbrook’s new recording: ‘Paintbox Jane’. We talk to Jane …
Mike and Kate Westbrook are about to release a new recording, “Paintbox Jane: Raoul Dufy Paints a Portrait” which will be available as CD and/or download from 19 August 2022. The eponymous […]
Mike Westbrook at 85 – the Citizen Jazz interview
There are quiet heroes. Mike Westbrook is one of them. Since the early 1970s, the English pianist, composer and horn player has been offering elegant, rich and intelligent music that is off […]
2022 Cheltenham Jazz Festival – heard in brief
The LJN team’s coverage of the 2022 Cheltenham Jazz Festival has been substantial. Jon Turney, Peter Slavid and photographer John Watson have done a great job. We have published their reviews of […]
Mike Westbrook’s Uncommon Orchestra at Ronnie Scott’s
Mike Westbrook’s Uncommon Orchestra(Ronnie Scott’s, 12 April 2022. Live review by Patrick Hadfield) Ronnie Scott’s was full of anticipation ahead of this long awaited show, originally scheduled for April 2020 (it had […]
‘Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain’ (1965-1972, Decca)
Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain (Decca 5393586. Album review by Denny Ilett) The great trumpeter and educator Clark Terry used a phrase that became somewhat of a mantra for budding jazz musicians; […]
Birthday Greetings to Mike Westbrook at 85
A central figure in UK and European jazz, Mike Westbrook, is 85 today, 21 March 2021. We (+) invited friends, colleagues and fans to wish him a very happy birthday. Alessandro Achilli: […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021 (7. ‘Mama Chicago (1)’ – Mike Westbrook, 1979)
The seventh of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), music haunted by the ghost of an unseen theatre production. Mike Westbrook has such an extraordinary back catalogue it’s easy to overlook even […]
A Guide to “The Westbrook Jazz Moving Picture Show”
Mike and Kate Westbrook have created a remarkable and continually expanding archive of films, The Westbrook Jazz Moving Picture Show. The latest addition is Toad’s Washerwoman a brand new animation to a […]
Kate Westbrook & The Granite Band – “Earth Felt the Wound”
Kate Westbrook & The Granite Band – Earth Felt the Wound (Westbrook Records, WR006. CD review by Duncan Heining) Is it really two years since Kate Westbrook’s last record Granite came out? […]
RIP Sue Davies OBE (1933-2020)
Sebastian writes: In 2005, Digby Fairweather introduced me to a quite remarkable person. Sue Davies, who passed away peacefully from cancer on 18 April 2020, four days after her 87th birthday, had […]
Mike Westbrook and The Uncommon Orchestra – Jazz on a Summer’s Afternoon at Torquay Town Hall
Jane Mann previews a joyful gig down in Devon: Torquay residents are in for a real treat on Sunday afternoon the 25 August. The great English jazz composer and band leader Mike Westbrook […]
