UK Jazz News

June 14, 2021

Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and Bill Laswell, Sacred Ceremonies (3CDs) / TUM Box 003 Wadada Leo Smith, Trumpet (3CDs) / TUM Box 002 Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and Bill Laswell, Sacred Ceremonies (3CDs) / TUM Box [...]

The Music of Led Zeppelin

Jazz Led Zeppelin? Was this a bet dreamt up just before last orders? Or was it a record executive’s 4am brainstorm? On the face of it, the stentorian thrash of the 1970s hammers of the gods – all throbbing guitars [...]

12 June 2021.

Toulouse Lautrec has been back in full swing for a few weeks now with everything from burlesque to singer-songwriters to life drawing classes, but most of all they’ve been hosting some of the best jazz groups that have either been [...]

Bill Frisell, 'This Land', 1992

The 24th of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), perhaps the most influential guitar player of the last decades. Much of Bill Frisell’s later work finds him digging deeper into songs he heard when much younger. He says if you [...]

(Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, 28-29 August 2021)

AJ Dehany remembers the 2019 edition and looks forward to dipping a toe back in the water of music festivals: Styling itself as a Scottish Supernormal, the delayed third edition of the Jupiter Rising mini-festival is coming on 28-29 August. [...]

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