Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival is offering music fans the chance to access part of its programme – even if they can’t get to Scotland’s capital city in person. Rob Adams reports: […]
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Digital Hub
‘Tales of the Tribe’ (New project from SNJO – Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, 12-14 May)
Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark…myths…legends… These are the mysterious places to which SNJO’s new project, also involving Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, actor Blythe Duff and a selection of Scottish traditional musicians, wants […]
Tia Brazda (Pizza Express Holborn, 2 May)
Growing up in Vancouver, Tia Brazda says “singing and writing became like companions” that she still has to this day. Coming to London to promote her new album When I Get Low with […]
Estraven (New album ‘Ignored Advice’ released 4 March 2022)
Estraven (a quartet of bassist/composer Chris Hyde-Harrison, saxophonist Duncan Eagles, guitarist Alban Claret and drummer Matt Parkinson) will release their debut album on 4 March. Feature by Rob Adams. As a BA […]
Nucleus – ‘Live at the BBC’ (Recordings 1970-1991, 13-CD set)
Nucleus – Live at the BBC (Repertoire Records Repuk 1410. 13-CD set. Album review by Rob Adams) Dave Pegg, the bass guitarist with Fairport Convention, once likened that band’s manifold personnel changes […]
Kurt Elling/SNJO – ‘Apparition Bridge’ (Scottish tour 18-21 Nov)
Kurt Elling and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra are back together with a new collaboration – they are building an Apparition Bridge. Rob Adams reports: Works by the late Esbjorn Svennson, Danish bassist […]
RIP Robin Morton (1939-2021)
Rob Adams writes: Robin Morton was a hugely influential figure on the folk and traditional music scene in Scotland and across the world, and yet if he’d followed his initial musical dream, […]
Ben Wilcock (new album ‘The River Tethys’, Thick Records NZ)
New Zealand pianist Ben Wilcock has added a new ingredient to his music. His latest album, The River Tethys is inspired by science-fiction and includes standards and even an Irish slip jig […]
Beverley Beirne (new album ‘Dream Dancer’)
A chance meeting online paid dividends for Beverley Beirne when top New York keyboards player/record producer Jason Miles – of Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Luther Vandross fame – offered to work […]
Janette Mason (‘Wall to Wall Bowie’ EP, released 25 June / Ronnie Scott’s gig 10 August)
“It’s not a tribute, it’s a reworking and a celebration,” says Janette Mason of her Wall to Wall Bowie EP which is released on 10” vinyl and CD on 25 June. Rob […]
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra / Maria Rud premiere ‘Where Rivers Meet’ (12-15 May)
The visionary musical ideas of Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman and Anthony Braxton meet the spontaneous creativity of the Edinburgh-based Russian artist Maria Rud in one of the architectural gems of […]
NZ Saxophonist Lucien Johnson (new album ‘Wax///Wane’)
New Zealand saxophonist Lucien Johnson tells Rob Adams about his musical journeying ahead of the release on 1 April of a new digital album, Wax///Wane. Lucien Johnson knows the value of preparation. […]
SNJO Releases Video to Celebrate Burns Night
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra has released a video of a Robert Burns song to mark the band’s absence from its habitual gig at Ronnie Scott’s on the birthday of Scotland’s national […]
GoFundMe Campaign launched to help keyboardist Steve Hamilton
A GoFundMe campaign has been started to help pianist and keyboardist Steve Hamilton following surgery to remove his right kidney, writes Rob Adams. Hamilton, who lived and worked in London for a […]
Debut album from septet Ensemble C, led by pianist Claire Cope
London-based pianist/composer Claire Cope can’t wait for travelling to be restored as an everyday option, especially for touring musicians. As the name of her septet’s debut album, Small World, might imply, in […]
