American vocalist and songwriter Maci Miller has released five independent CDs and has had notable collaborations and licensing/publishing deals with Disney, as well as international jazz releases in Asia. She has worked […]
‘Benny Goodman/Glenn Miller at Carnegie Hall 1939: The Battle of the Big Bands’ – Cadogan Hall, 13 June
“We play it because it’s great music,” says bandleader Pete Long, who will be directing the latest of the Jazz Repertory Company’s recreations of defining moments in jazz. ‘Benny Goodman/Glenn Miller at […]
Terence Collie Quartet at Pizza Express Dean Street
Terence Collie Quartet(Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho. 4 May 2024. Review by Chris Gazzard) The Terence Collie Quartet’s gig at Pizza Express in Dean Street on Saturday 4 May had attracted a […]
Bill Holman (1927-2024): A Tribute by Charlie Rees
The great arranger Bill Holman passed away at the age of 96 last Monday. A three-time Grammy Award winner nominated on sixteen occasions, he was at the forefront of West Coast Jazz […]
Ron Miles feat. Bill Frisell + Brian Blade – ‘Old Main Chapel’, rec.2011
Ron Miles – Old Main Chapel(Blue Note. Review by Andrew Taylor-Dawson) Recorded in 2011 at a performance in Boulder. Colorado, ‘Old Main Chapel’ is a fine document of a collaboration between three […]
Adam Dyer – ‘River Spirit’
Adam Dyer – River Spirit(KamL 0001. Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) Pianist Adam Dyer‘s debut album is a winning combination of lively post-bop originals, some romantic ballads and a couple of reworked […]
Shabaka at the Barbican
Shabaka(Barbican Hall, 9 May 2024. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Here’s a paradox. Strangely, it seems easier to tell the story of Shabaka Hutchings’s music, and of the recent radical departure in it, […]
Emma Rawicz becomes 9th BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist
BBC Radio 3 has announced its next cohort of New Generation Artists for 2024-2026, among whom is saxophonist/bandleader/composer/arranger Emma Rawicz. Emma becomes the ninth jazz musician to join the scheme, now in […]
Equal Spirits, ‘Wise and Waiting’ album launch in Bristol
Equal Spirits, ‘Wise and Waiting’ Album Launch(Factory Theatre, Bristol. Sunday 25 May. Review by Mike Collins) It just took a swaying bass line that immediately made bodies move in sympathy, pattering brushes […]
Rosie Frater-Taylor – 15 May Pizza Pheasantry
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Rosie Frater-Taylor is looking forward to her appearance in the series “Nigel Williams & Jazz FM present”, when she will be singing/playing a live session – and in conversation […]
Makoto Ozone solo piano at Pizza Pheasantry
Makoto Ozone(Pizza Pheasantry. 7 May 2024. Second night of two. Review by Sebastian Scotney) “I think the jazz community seriously underrates Makoto [Ozone],” wrote Gary Burton in his 2013 autobiography ‘Learning to […]
Nine UK Bands at XJAZZ! FESTIVAL 2024 (Kreuzberg, Berlin 6-12 May / + album).
Sebastian writes: one of my obvious takeaways from taking on the role of running the UK’s presence at the jazzahead! trade fair last month is the constant demand for independently-minded UK and […]
Cheltenham Jazz Fest 2024 (6): The Sunday Parabola programme
In this sixth and final report from the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Peter Slavid writes about the Parabola Arts Centre programme on the Sunday. The final day of the Parabola programme was a […]
Roberto Magris ‘Europlane for Jazz’ in Austria
Roberto Magris, Europlane for Jazz(Bad Goisern, Austria. Part of European Capital of Culture programme. 25 April 2024. Review by Oliver Weindling) As part of the celebrations of European Capital of Culture in […]
RSNO with SNJO and Makoto Ozone in Edinburgh
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/ Scottish National Jazz Orchestra / Makoto Ozone(Usher Hall, Edinburgh. 3 May 2024. Review by Patrick Hadfield) Marking the centenary of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and pianist Makoto Ozone […]
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