O’Higgins & Luft – Pluto (Ubuntu Music – UBU0126. CD Review by Graham Spry) In 2019, during what now seems a very different age and a long time ago before the pandemic, […]
O’Higgins & Luft – ‘Pluto’
Trish Clowes – ‘A View with a Room’
Trish Clowes – A View with a Room (Greenleaf GRE-CD-1094. Album review by Jon Turney) Jazz ensembles at two ends of a spectrum can both yield a kind of freedom. At one, […]
Trish Clowes: when making jazz is “the most fun ever”
Bandleader, composer and saxophonist Trish Clowes explains how her band, My Iris, has taken the spirit of adventure into the studio for their new album. Feature by John Bungey. The essence of […]
Omar + QCBA (new album ‘Live At Last’ – Ubuntu Music, released 11 February 2022)
A new live album “with a spur-of-the-moment vibe” from Omar, Quentin Collins, Brandon Allen, Ross Stanley Live At Last is released today. Feature by Lavender Sutton. In May 2021, just after the […]
Herts Jazz Festival (15-17 October 2021)
The Herts Jazz Festival returns in October, running from Friday 15 to Sunday 17. Preview by Peter Vacher: Oh, to be in Bishops Stortford at festival time. Well, that’s what it feels […]
Omar + QCBA – Live at the Jazz Café
Omar + QCBA (Live at The Jazz Café. Also recorded for future release as a live album. 29 May 2021. Review by Lavender Sutton) Camden Town on a Saturday night was an […]
Nigel Price Organ Trio – ‘Wes Reimagined’
Nigel Price Organ Trio – Wes Reimagined (Ubuntu Music UBU0080. Album review by Denny Ilett) There’s a very good reason why the music of Wes Montgomery continues to inspire guitarists some 53 […]
Nigel Price – online presence + touring (?!) + a new album 4 June
Guitarist Nigel Price, one of the most pro-active and creative musicians it is our pleasure to know … unsurprisingly… has used the time during lockdown when he couldn’t tour to expand his […]
Jamie Cullum – ‘The Pianoman at Christmas’
Jamie Cullum – The Pianoman at Christmas (Island. CD Review by Ciaran Carter) This is Jamie Cullum’s 10th Studio release. Comprising ten original songs, it was begun before the first Covid-19 lockdown […]
The first 2020 UK tour to be announced since lockdown – we believe – by the Nigel Price Organ Trio
There was probably only one candidate to be organizing what we believe to be the first UK jazz tour for 2020 since lockdown, just announced. TWENTY-NINE dates Taking in some rivers: from […]
Zoöphyte – “Signs of Life”
Zoöphyte – Signs of Life (Howlin’ Werewolf 004. CD review by Andrew Cartmel) Signs of Life is the first album by Zoöphyte, a flexible collective of musicians under the leadership of vocalist […]
Dick Oatts Quartet at Pizza Express Jazz Club (2019 EFG LJF)
Dick Oatts Quartet (Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street. EFG London Jazz Festival. 20 November 2019. Review by Samuel Norris) “If there’s anything we need right now, it’s a little bit of […]
Zoe Francis’s ‘Blue Town’ Project at Pizza Express Dean Street
Zoe Francis’s ‘Blue Town’ Project (Pizza Express Dean Street. 10 November 2019. Review by Brian Blain) With positive memories of Zoe Francis‘s Blue Town CD from the summer, I wondered how its […]
Zoe Francis with Jim Mullen and Ross Stanley – Blue Town
Zoe Francis with Jim Mullen and Ross Stanley – Blue Town (Zoe Francis Records. CD Review by Brian Blain) No one makes a fortune accompanying UK jazz singers, so the fact that […]
