Julius Windisch Quartet – Chaos (Hout Records HR023. Album Review by Peter Slavid) Julius Windisch is a young German pianist and composer. He studied originally in Bern and released his first album there […]
Julius Windisch Quartet – “Chaos”
Liverpool International Jazz Festival (27 Feb – 1 March)
Peter Slavid previews this year’s eighth Liverpool International Jazz Festival. It will be his first visit to the festival. He picks a double bill of Martin Archer’s Anthropology Band and Moonmot as […]
Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet – When Angels Fall
Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet – When Angels Fall (Whirlwind Recordings WR4747. CD review by Peter Slavid) Back in the 1960s, Polish jazz was known mostly for it’s role in the protest movement against Soviet-era […]
Moutin Factory Quintet at Pizza Express Jazz Club (2019 EFG LJF)
Moutin Factory Quintet (Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, EFG London Jazz Festival, Saturday 23 November. Review by Peter Slavid) François and Louis Moutin are twins who individually have had a strong […]
Julian Sartorius & Dan Nicholls + Y-Otis (2019 EFG LJF)
Julian Sartorius & Dan Nicholls + Y-Otis (Dalston SET, EFG London Jazz Festival, Monday 18 November. Review by Peter Slavid) The Dalston SET is a rather chaotic, pleasantly seedy small box of […]
Sylvain Rifflet – Troubadours
Sylvain Rifflet – Troubadours (Magriff 0256. CD review by Peter Slavid) Sylvain Rifflet plays tenor sax, clarinet and bass clarinet plus, for this album, harmonium and shruti box. He also composed most of […]
Daniel Erdmann’s Velvet Revolution – Won’t Put No Flag Out
Daniel Erdmann’s Velvet Revolution – Won’t Put No Flag Out (BMC CD 282. CD review by Peter Slavid) The term “Chamber Jazz” is much overused, almost as much as as the word […]
Jeppe Zeeberg – Universal Disappointment
Jeppe Zeeberg – Universal Disappointment (ZEE201901. Review by Peter Slavid) Jeppe Zeeberg is a young Danish pianist who has a Masters degree from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and was a key […]
