An American couple in the audience at this year’s Wall2Wall festival at Black Mountain Jazz reminded me of the famous Miles Kington quip about leaving South Wales to seek jazz in London only for him ...
Fifty years ago Barry McRae enjoyed the bits - especially the bass and piano duet - that weren't blighted by stiff, vertical drumming. First published in Jazz Journal August 1975 ...
These latest volumes in what is an ongoing and intriguing series from the New York-based Sadigursky (cl) and Koci (acn) drop the fuller group approach of their previous sessions for Adhyâropa Records.
A refined sense of understatement defines this set throughout, the three-way communication and interplay of the trio consistently delivered in exquisite fashion. The trio might stretch out a bit on ...
Four very different vocalists feature in this set of reviews, the first being Savina Yannatou, from Greece. She shares honours on Watersong with Tunisian singer Lamia Bedioui and the Primavera en ...
They say : Pianist Cyrus Chestnut returns to HighNote with a superb new quartet recording. This highly anticipated album showcases Chestnut’s rhythmic precision, emotive touch, and improvisational ...
Born in Paris and raised in Scotland, Rebecca Vasmant has become an unofficial ambassador for contemporary jazz. Drawing deeply on personal experiences that have shaped her, Vasmant – a DJ producer as ...
There is relatively little improvisation on this LP, but instead many delightful timbres. Rooyen has a fair solo on Ritz, and Bruninghaus solos extremely well on Chloe. But Giger’s sensitive drum ...
Sam Coombes: Time Of Life (33Jazz Records) | Anouar Brahem: After The Last Sky (ECM 2838) | Mark Turner: We Raise Them To Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music LLM023) | AuB: Folk Devils (Whirlwind ...
Geoff Hearn's Lateef-inspired woodwind, guitar and percussion trio played a set of spiritualised, folk-flavoured, mostly modal originals as well as, perhaps indicatively, Coltrane's Lonnie's Lament I ...
Jazz FM, the London-based radio station, this year resumes its jazz awards scheme, with categories including soul and blues acts of the year. Nick Pitts, Jazz FM content director, says of the awards, ...
Pianist Sonny Clark, given the regularity with which he – in common with quite a few others – recorded for Blue Note either as a sideman or under their own name, might be described as the label’s ...
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