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 ...
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 ...
The group started with a swinging minor-key tune, Big Bertha by Duke Pearson. Vincent Herring took the first solo, employing a powerful attack and hard-driving lines. Catalan guitarist Joan Fort ...
“I’m not interested in the new for the sake of newness” writes Jeremy Pelt in the liner notes for Woven. It is an interesting observation to make, because although Pelt puts his own stamp on his music ...
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 ...
Not a new musical sub-genre, but an Arts Council funded organisation in north London, Queer Jazz aims to promote LGBTQIA+ jazz performers Claiming that “most jazz fans would struggle to name more than ...
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 ...
This one week festival was presented by the London Borough of Camden in association with the indefatigable Jazz Centre Society. Due to personal circumstances, I was only able to attend on two nights ...
Thorough, sympathetic biography of the singular, immediately recognisable US reedman and flautist details his musical dedication and the often dismissive critical reception he endured before his early ...
Once again, Nick Duckett’s RandB Records mines the rich vein of material from the BBC archives, lost gems from a changing period of British jazz. The National Jazz Orchestra and Howard Riley were ...
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 ...
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