The Herts Jazz Festival returns in October, running from Friday 15 to Sunday 17. Preview by Peter Vacher: Oh, to be in Bishops Stortford at festival time. Well, that’s what it feels […]
Herts Jazz Festival (15-17 October 2021)
Alice Zawadzki Band & Rob Luft Quintet + Amika String Quartet
Alice Zawadzki Band & Rob Luft Quintet + Amika String Quartet (Livestreamed from Cambridge Jazz Festival, 21 November 2020. Review by Amy Sibley-Allen) This double bill livestreamed from the Junction Theatre in […]
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra – “The Light That Shines”
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra – The Light That Shines (SPARK009. Download Review by Jon Turney) Hard to detach this nice release from the circumstances of its production. Fears that the future of recorded jazz […]
Misha Mullov-Abbado and Douglas Marriner (albums for 2020 / new JAZZTHETIK London Column)
Sebastian’s regular London Column in the new issue of the German magazine JAZZTHETIK (link to German text below) looks forward to new releases by 2020 releases from two musicians with a family […]
Jazz Generation: BBC Concert Orchestra, Matthew Barley, etc (2019 EFG LJF)
Jazz Generation: Matthew Barley, Omar Puente, Peter Edwards, BBC Concert Orchestra, Nu Civilisation Orchestra, StringTing. Conducted by Michael Seal and Edwards. Music by Misha Mullov-Abbado, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Bramwell Tovey (Queen Elizabeth Hall, […]
