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’
Simon Spillett Big Band at the Concorde Club, Eastleigh
Simon Spillett Big Band play the music of Tubby Hayes (The Concorde Club, Eastleigh, Hampshire. 9 February 2022. Review by Paul Kelly) The Concorde Club in Eastleigh, just north of Southampton, is […]
NCW4 (Nick Costley-White 4) first gig at Sound Cellar, Poole, Dorset
NCW 4 (Nick Costley-White, Ivo Neame, Conor Chaplin, Lewis Wright) (Sound Cellar, The Avocet, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset. 20 January 2022. Live review by Paul Kelly) The post-industrial seaside Dorset town of Poole […]
Yazz Ahmed – “Polyhymnia”
Yazz Ahmed – Polyhymnia (RopeaDope Records. CD review by Paul Kelly) Much of jazz is about solo instrumental imagination and prowess around a number of standard theme. But a far smaller group […]
Mark Kavuma – “The Banger Factory”
Mark Kavuma – The Banger Factory (Ubuntu Music UBU0028. CD review by Paul Kelly) What does it take to keep a well-trodden medium fresh? Is instrumental prowess enough? It’s been 65 years […]
Quentin Collins Sextet – “Road Warrior”
Quentin Collins Sextet – Road Warrior (Ubuntu Records – UB0027 CD Review by Paul Kelly) Whilst mid-40s Bebop created the seismic break from 30s swing, it was, in reality its slightly less frenetic successor, […]
