Marbin – Shreddin’ at Sweetwater (Marbin Music. Album review by Rob Mallows) What’s the expression: when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade? Lockdown has given musicians around the world the mother of […]
Marbin – ‘Shreddin’ at Sweetwater’
Børge Olsen – ‘Music in the Dark’
Børge Olsen – Music in the Dark (Fresh Tea Records. CD review by Rob Mallows) On the cover of this, his second solo release, veteran Norwegian guitarist Børge Olsen looks every inch the […]
Ellen Andrea Wang – “Closeness”
Ellen Andrea Wang – Closeness (release 18 September 2020) (Ropeadope Records. CD review by Rob Mallows) This third solo album by Norwegian bassist and singer Ellen Andrea Wang shows a maturity linked – […]
Hedvig Mollestad – “Ekhidna”
Hedvig Mollestad – Ekhidna (Rune Grammofon, RCD2215. CD review by Rob Mallows) I first saw Norway’s Hedvig Mollestad-Thomassen about seven years ago in the power trio that brought her to the attention […]
“Solo” by Andrew McCormack
Andrew McCormack – Solo (Livestreamed album launch, 26 June 2020. Review by Rob Mallows) Lockdown has forced London’s music lovers to experience live music in a very odd way. But even with […]
Torben Westergaard – “The Gori Project”
Torben Westergaard – The Gori Project(TWMusik TWMUSIK016. Album review by Rob Mallows) I’ve always had a soft spot for Nordic music. Most of my favourite albums of the last decade have been from […]
Grégory Privat – “Soley”
Grégory Privat – Soley (Buddham Jazz Records. CD review by Rob Mallows) Until this year’s London Jazz Festival, I had not heard of French pianist Grégory Privat. Then I saw him playing as part of […]
Kyle Eastwood – Cinematic
Kyle Eastwood – Cinematic (Jazz Village. CD review by Rob Mallows) A jazz album of some of cinema’s classic soundtracks from Kyle Eastwood. There is a sort of divine inevitability that the […]
Get the Blessing at the MOTH Club (2019 EFG LJF)
Get the Blessing (MOTH Club, Hackney, London Jazz Festival, Saturday 23 November. Review by Rob Mallows) Hackney on a dark, wintry London night. There’s anywhere else I’d rather be. But during the […]
Lars Danielsson Quartet – Liberetto III at Wigmore Hall (2019 EFG LJF)
Lars Danielsson Quartet – Liberetto III (Wigmore Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival, 19 November 2019. Review by Rob Mallows) The audience at Wigmore Hall sits in front of a huge cupola above […]
Tal Wilkenfeld at Ronnie Scott’s (2019 EFG LJF)
Tal Wilkenfeld (Ronnie Scott’s, London Jazz Festival, Saturday 16 November. Review by Rob Mallows) It had been, Tal Wilkenfeld told the audience at a rammed Ronnie Scott’s, 12 years since she’d last […]
Mike Stern & Jeff Lorber Fusion – Eleven
Mike Stern & Jeff Lorber Fusion – Eleven (Concord Jazz Records. CD review by Rob Mallows) Jeff Lorber is the original gangster when it comes to jazz-funk-fusion and all the variations thereof (indeed, he’s been […]
Bill Evans ft. WDR Big Band Cologne – The East End
Bill Evans ft. WDR Big Band Cologne – The East End (Jazzline Records. Album review by Rob Mallows) Each week, LondonJazz News reviewers receive an email with the latest album releases needing reviews. When I […]
Per Mathisen – Sounds of 3 – Edition 2
Per Mathisen – Sounds of 3 – Edition 2 (Losen Records. CD review by Rob Mallows) Three is a powerful integer. According to De La Soul, it’s ‘magic’. It forms a stable […]
Spirit Fingers – Interview plus review (Ronnie Scott’s 25 July, Hampstead 26/27 July)
Rob Mallows, for LondonJazz News, met up with the members of Spirit Fingers at the start of a mini-heatwave in London. The music later that night at Pizza Express Holborn matched the weather! The band […]
