Ann Braithwaite, originally from Barrington, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, has been running the Boston-based PR firm Braithwaite and Katz Communications since 1986. Journalists love working with her for the quality music she […]
Nick Costley-White “Speak Like A Child” Sextet (Pizza Express Dean Street. 23 February 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney) What a great project. Speak Like a Child was an album by Herbie Hancock […]
RAM concerts: ECM at 50 (Susie Sainsbury Theatre, RAM, 30 and 31 January 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney – Thursday; Sam Norris – Friday first half) The Royal Academy’s celebration of the […]
The Big Blind with Kurt Elling and Dee Dee Bridgewater (Queen Elizabeth Hall. 31 January 2020. Review by Sebastian Scotney) The musical The Big Blind is a big show: its music and dialogue […]
Neil Hughes is familiar to the jazz community as a promoter. He started The Cinnamon Club in Altrincham (South Manchester) in January 2003. The club puts on around 80 gigs a year […]
Saxophonist Tim Garland has a range of very different projects for this year, and is looking forward in particular to a one-off trio appearance with Joe Locke and Gwilym Simcock. Interview by […]
Sebastian’s regular London Column in the new issue of the German magazine JAZZTHETIK (link to German text below) looks forward to new releases by 2020 releases from two musicians with a family […]
Yes! Trio (New Morning, Paris, 3 December 2019. Review by Sebastian Scotney) What happens when everything goes right? When three friends who already knew each other as music students remain in contact […]
Hermeto Pascoal (Ronnie Scott’s. 18 November 2019. EFG London Jazz Festival. Review by Sebastian Scotney) There is, quite literally, no other musical experience like a concert by Hermeto Pascoal. In his review […]
Robin Phillips is an in-demand singer-pianist who is originally from Surrey who now lives on the outskirts of Cambridge. In a typical year he performs over 200 gigs. In this interview with […]
Geoff Winston is co-exhibitor with Calum Storrie at Burley Fisher Books in Dalston. The exhibition is called BOTH AND and runs until 24 November 2019 (now extended to Christmas). Sebastian Scotney asked […]
Sebastian writes: At a ceremony today an English Heritage blue plaque in honour of Ronnie Scott was unveiled. The plaque marks the site of the first Ronnie Scott’s club, ahead of the 60th […]
Michel Petrucciani – Colors (Dreyfus/BMG 538526830. 2-CD Compilation. CD review by Sebastian Scotney) Pianist Michel Petrucciani died at the age of 36 on 6 January 1999. He had been born with osteogenesis […]
Where We Once Belonged at Georgia Mancio’s Hang (Pizza Express Dean Street. 9 October 2019. Review by Sebastian Scotney) The opening night of Georgia Mancio’s three-evening Hang series took on a very bold […]
O’Higgins and Luft play Monk and Trane Album Launch (Pizza Express Dean Street, 7 October 2019. Review by Sebastian Scotney) “Technological progress has merely provided us with more effective means of going […]
