The Jazz Repertory Company’s latest show, Bossa Nova with Strings, will be premiered at London’s Cadogan Hall on Sunday 21 November. It promises to be a night of glittering variety. As well […]
Richard Pite is looking forward to the return of the Monday lunchtime sessions at the Spice of Life in Soho, starting on 4 October with Enrico Tomasso. Richard writes: The Spice (6 […]
Herne Bay Jazz and Swing Festival (Pier Stage and King’s Hall, Herne Bay, 22 August 2021 (third day of three). Round-Up by Sebastian Scotney) What if jazz wasn’t always tucked away in […]
Andrew Willox and Eileen Mann – I Think We Have a Find: A Biography of Roy Willox (Self-published, 2020. Review by Simon Spillett) Biographies of musicians – of any style – have […]
Swingin’ with Strings (Cadogan Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival 24 November 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) This year’s London Jazz Festival may well have been the biggest and best to date. Let the […]
Miles Davis 1959 – Porgy and Bess…Kind of Blue And More (Cadogan Hall, London, 21 September 2019. Review by Peter Vacher) Nothing ventured, nothing gained, so the old adage goes. Richard Pite’s Jazz Repertory […]
The latest of the Jazz Repertory Company’s Cadogan Hall recreations of defining moments in jazz brings an historic big band battle back to life. Pete Long explained its significance to Peter Vacher: […]
Maria Schneider and the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra (Ronnie Scott’s, 5 July 2019, early show. Review by Jon Turney) One of the great contemporary jazz composers, Maria Schneider’s intricately arranged music is […]
