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 […]
Herts Jazz Festival (15-17 October 2021)
Five-Way Split at Toulouse Lautrec
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’
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 […]
Shez Raja : ‘Tales From The Punjab’
“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’
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’
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 […]
Katriona Taylor (new album ‘Blind Passion’ and livestreams 28 Nov + 20 Dec)
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 […]
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 […]
Drayton Court Jazz Festival (16-18 Aug)
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 […]
