When an album includes a selection of standards, it’s always interesting to see how they are handled and occasionally the old joke about playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right ...
Saxophonist, flautist, composer and sometime bass-player Pete Canter made his mark on the London jazz scene in the 1980s.
If you are looking for musicians to celebrate a bassist as unmistakable and influential as Ray Brown this trio surely sits ...
For a geezer of my vintage the great and most fruitful UK jazz explosion occurred in the late 60s-early 70s, fuelled by South African expats and musicians from the West Country and then, somewhat in ...
They say : London-based alto saxophonist Donovan Haffner releases his highly anticipated debut album ‘Alleviate’, a 9-track collection of original compositions recorded with Donovan’s quintet and is a ...
Nicole Mitchell is a renowned flautist and former chair of the AACM. Ballaké Sissoko an innovative kora player from Mali. Both are esteemed composers and both have defied convention in their ...
Singer and bassist Farnon led Dave Newton (p) and Phil Johnson (d) in a set including GAS classics and Stevie Wonder’s For Once In My Life Left to right: Dave Newton, Nicola Farnon, Phil Johnson at ...
Portrait Of A Romantic; On Hubbard’s Hill; Not Love Perhaps; Levitation; Undernote (23.18) – The Wanderer; Roundelay; The Wizzard’s Song (19.39) John Surman (bcl/r/ss/bar/syn). Recorded Oslo, Norway, ...
Jazz Journal critics were invited to allot 100 points to 10 choices from the albums reviewed in Jazz Journal in 2018, with a maximum of 20 points per choice. After unhurried, seemly and properly ...
This Danish release follows hot on the heels of last year’s issue on Timeless of the fourth album in the Eastern Rebellion series (reviewed in JJI, November 1984). Third Set was actually recorded six ...
Every summer in Upper Austria, a tiny village by the name of Diersbach gets into the spotlight for its wonderful jazz festival organised by trombonist Paul Zauner since 1985. There you needn’t bother ...
Val Wilmer with her shots of Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin in the background Blue Moments, Black Sounds – A Retrospective has just opened at the Worldly, Wicked & Wise Gallery in north London, ...
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