The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and saxophonist Gregory Groover Jr. His new album Old Knew – recorded with Joel Ross (vibraphone), Paul Cornish (piano), Harish Raghavan (bass), and Kendrick Scott (drums) – was released 7 [...]
The lumbering beast that is the tuba rarely steps into the spotlight. Its deep voice usually anchors thick orchestral textures, or is confined to the brass band’s lower end. That is, until Theon Cross emerged some years ago as one [...]
Drummer Roan Anderson won BBC Young Scottish Jazz Musician 2025. The competition was held today at Pacific Quay in Glasgow BIO from BBC: “Roan Anderson, from Inverclyde, Scotland, has been drumming since the age of seven. Now 23 and a [...]
Full Monte, who formed in 1988, comprised four musicians who were not only formidable and fearless free improvisers but musicians of great versatility. Brian Godding (guitar synth) had played with psychedelic rock cult band Blossom Toes, Keith Tippett, Mike Westbrook, [...]
The showcase organized for the annual Jazz Promotion Network conference gave a taste of music from several parts of the UK (and a bit of Ireland). Two evenings in the impressive concert hall of the Royal Welsh College of Music [...]
There are few sounds that capture the joy of the festive season quite like a big band in full swing. Glittering brass, lush strings, and the velvet tones of classic vocals conjure an atmosphere of timeless celebration, and nobody delivers [...]
New York drummer Omar Hakim truly is in a class of his own. A glance at his bio makes that clear; and the live experience confirms it. He is not only wonderfully versatile in the fills and patterns he chooses. [...]
The Fife Youth Jazz Orchestra (FYJO) marked its 50th anniversary at the Adam Smith Theatre in Kirkcaldy over the weekend of 1-2 November. More than 75 musicians took to the stage — from some of the original members, now pensioners, [...]
Jazz fans living in West London can be forgiven for casting envious glances at the mass of venues and nightly gigs in North and East and South London. In particular fans out in the west who enjoy progressive jazz have [...]
“There are some good signs, some happy coincidences here,” commented Vincent Bessières (*) in his onstage introduction before this concert, the first in a Jazzdor Festival under his artistic directorship. He, Strasbourg mayor Jeanne Barseghian and Isabelle Chardonnier, head of [...]
Broadway World reviewed the show “The Best of Ann Hampton Callaway” in New York, and commented: “Callaway, more regularly known as the eighth wonder of the world, actually IS the best.” She brings the show into an ideal setting, Crazy [...]
The list of nominees for the 2026 Grammy’s was announced yesterday 7 November. A particular word of congratulation to Nick Smart of the Royal Academy of Music: the album “Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores” represents (at least!) a [...]
“It’s going to be a night to remember!” says Claire Martin of the Jazz Repertory Company’s latest project in recreating memorable moments from jazz history…with strings attached. Peter Vacher explains: Richard Pite’s Jazz Repertory Company has long since made London’s [...]
In parallel with the intense sense of purpose radiated by pianist Sean Mason is an equal sense of re-purpose. On his new album, ‘A Breath Of Fresh Air’, Mason, a 27-year-old Juilliard graduate, reveals his firm grasp of jazz history, [...]
Roberto Gatto has had a remarkable career spanning more than half a century and crossing genres, languages, and generations of Italian (and international) jazz. A Roman drummer with an inexhaustible personality, Gatto has written essential pages in the story of [...]
Canadian guitarist Bill Coon has produced a marvellous solo album and the title perfectly sums up this recording. It’s a disc containing standards from the American popular songbook, apart from one Bill Coon original Fall Rain at Night, and they [...]
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