Bruce Lindsay – Ivor Cutler: A Life Outside the Sitting Room (Equinox Books. 254 pp. £25. Book Review by Rob Adams) Ivor Cutler was a singular talent. He was an author, poet, […]
Bruce Lindsay – ‘Ivor Cutler: A Life Outside the Sitting Room’
Aga Derlak (Rebel Spirits podcast series from Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland)
Aga Derlak, one of the talented mavericks in the podcast series Rebel Spirits, which offers an insight into the innovative and progressive talents to emerge in Polish jazz over the past twenty […]
RIP Fionna Duncan (1939-2022)
An important and highly influential figure on the Scottish scene, vocalist and educator Fionna Duncan died on Tuesday 6 December 2022 at the age of 83. As Rob Adams has written in […]
Jive Aces’ Not Quite Christmas (Aldwych Theatre, 12 Dec)
It’s beginning to feel Not Quite Christmas. Rob Adams slicks back his hair and turns up his collar to preview the Jive Aces’ new show, featuring a host of special guests. The […]
Take 6 and more in PizzaExpress Live programme during EFGLJF ’22
PizzaExpress offers wide range of jazz acts from around the world and across the days of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2022. Rob Adams previews: The “baddest vocal cats on the planet,” […]
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Digital Hub
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: […]
‘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 […]
