
Five-Way Split – All The Way (Ubuntu music UBU129 . Review by Len Weinreich) Around the time Brits were crowding the dance floor, jiving to the revival of New Orleans’ jazz, young […]
Five-Way Split – All The Way (Ubuntu music UBU129 . Review by Len Weinreich) Around the time Brits were crowding the dance floor, jiving to the revival of New Orleans’ jazz, young […]
Five-Way Split (Quentin Collins, Rob Barron, Vasilis Xenopoulos, Mátyás Hofecker, Matt Home) (Pizza Express Dean Street. All The Way album launch 9 May 2023. Live Review by Gareth Thomas) Soho’s Pizza Express […]
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 […]
Five-Way Split(Toulouse Lautrec. 12 June 2021. Review by Lavender Sutton) Toulouse Lautrec has been back in full swing for a few weeks now with everything from burlesque to singer-songwriters to life drawing […]
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 […]
“It really is a miracle that I managed to record this album,” says Shez Raja. The highly rated bassist and bandleader travelled 4,000 miles to create Tales From The Punjab, his new […]
Zoophyte – Out of the Cave (Howlin’ Werewolf HWEP001. EP Review by Jeanie Barton) Out of the Cave, available on Bandcamp, features a number of cats with a cool jive. Zoophyte is […]
Ed Benstead Quintet – Places and Faces (Self-released. Album Review by Jeanie Barton) This eclectic album opens with an unaccompanied, stripped back rendition of Cherokee from Ed Benstead (flugelhorn) and Vasilis Xenopoulos […]
Vocalist Katriona Taylor has a new album out, Blind Passion, celebrating the music of blind artists, and including songs by Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Diane Schuur and José Feliciano. The singer, who […]
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 […]
Peter Bacon reports: According to the organisers, it’s “More than a Jazz Festival: an outdoor party with a wide range of ales, hog roast etc.” Headlining at this year’s Drayton Court Jazz […]