Those who like their jazz to be a jingling background to a sophisticated reception should probably look away now. The Jazzrausch Bigband has pioneered a new genre of ‘techno jazz’ and it’s more glowsticks and subwoofers than cocktails and crisp [...]
This album documents that rarest of events from the past few months: a live jazz gig recorded in October 2020 in front of a live audience who – truly and audibly – appreciate what the players can do. The quality [...]
Pianist Jimmy Rowles (1918-1996) is something of an insider name, writes songwriter/arranger/pianist Alex Webb (*), but most jazz listeners will have heard him in some or other context whether they realise it or not. He made more than 40 albums [...]
That glorious body of 20th Century musical work known as The Great American Songbook has long provided artists with an almost bottomless pit of musical magic upon which to draw. Almost a century after many of them were written, new [...]
The twelfth of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), a beguiling piece of West coast freebop. Bobby Bradford’s long-standing Los Angeles based ensemble the Mo’ Tet had just the one studio recording, but it’s a highlight in the great, Ornette [...]
Neil Ardley, active in UK jazz mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, left a fine but limited discography. It was circumscribed first by his focus on large-scale works for big ensembles, then by a vastly successful career in publishing. Kaleidoscope [...]
Oud, guitar, jazz, and Greek and Turkish music – Stefanos Tsourelis describes himself as “…a musical wanderer, travelling to different places, using my imagination as a guide.” London-based Tsourelis grew up in Greece studying the Greek lute and oud; on [...]
