The new Europe Jazz Media Chart is out. We were welcomed in to the set-up last year, and since then Peter Slavid, Tony Dudley-Evans and Sebastian have been rotating the strike, as […]
Europe Jazz Media Chart January 2021
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & The MaXx – ‘Live’
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & The MaXx – Live (MNJ Records MNJ002. Review by Peter Slavid) I have to admit I was always going to be favourably predisposed towards a big-band album with […]
Global Competition for Jazz Musicians: Interview with Valerio Pappi of 7 Virtual Jazz Club
“The uniqueness of the Global Competition for Jazz Musicians stands in its being fully online, in having a jury representative of the entire world, and a voting system that leaves solely to […]
LJN joins monthly Europe Jazz Media Chart for the first time
For the very first time, the team from LondonJazz News has participated in the monthly Europe Jazz Media Chart. Our writer Peter Slavid picked Dancing In Your Head(s) by the French Orchestre […]
Orchestre National de Jazz -“Rituels” and “Dancing in Your Head(s)”
Orchestre National de Jazz – Rituels (double album) (Rituels: ONJ Records 484444 / Dancing in Your Head(s): ONJ Records 474444. Reviews by Peter Slavid) The Orchestre National de Jazz (ONJ) is an […]
Julius Windisch Quartet – “Chaos”
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 […]
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 […]
