Tristan Banks Quartet ( The Lighthouse, Deal, Kent 19 September 2024. Review and photos by Duarte Figueira) ...
Fabled British singer Elaine Delmar‘s first album in several years, Speak Low (as Elaine writes on the liner note) “is a ...
Report by Oliver Weindling Han Bennink and Ingrid Laubrock. Photo Willem_Schwertmann Artists: * Han Bennink, Ingrid Laubrock, Marta Warelis* ...
Marius Neset & Leif Ove Andsnes – Who We Are (Simax PSC1401. Album review by Andrew Taylor-Dawson) Celebrated Norwegian sax maestro Marius Neset and his compatriot classical pianist Leif Ove Andsnes ...
London Intercollegiate Jazz Orchestra (The Vortex, 17 September 2024. Review by Tom Hardy) ...
The Winner of the Musicians’ Company Tina May Young Jazz Musician of the Year Competition 2024, held at Pizza Express Dean ...
Alice Zawadzki, Fred Thomas, Misha Mullov-Abbado – Za Górami (ECM 2810/6512008. Album review by Phil Johnson) ...
Montreux Jazz Festival and the Southbank Centre. Photo credits: Markus Schweizer – creative commons / Southbank Centre Sebastian writes: The Season Press Launch today at the Southbank Centre ...
Because, when two veteran virtuosi, Alan Barnes on a selection of reeds and David Newton on piano (combined ages totalling 131 years), have drawn on their lifelong music-making careers to complete a ...
Because, when Guy Barker introduced his new musical extravaganza, explaining that his magnum opus (dialogue by his chum, writer Rob Ryan) had been inspired by the Twilight Zone and a 60s soul song, ...
Jazzfest Berlin started in 1964, and has announced the full programme for its “Jubiläumsausgabe” (Jubilee Edition). Pianists featured on the main stage: Kris Davis(Friday), Joachim ...
The song’ is still at the heart of everything I do, and one of the greatest joys of my life is when I am required to arrange new repertoire – to frame songs in such a way that the ...