Singers Norma Winstone MBE, Georgia Mancio and Claire Martin, drummer Jas Kayser and saxophonist Nubya Garcia are among the recipients of the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2021, announced in an online presentation streamed from Pizza Express, Dean Street. Norma Winstone, who [...]
The 30th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections finds a great Chicagoan injecting new life into an appropriate Jelly Roll Morton classic. The opening track on this wonderful LP is Henry Threadgill’s homage to an earlier era, a footnote to an [...]
This double CD features glorious jazz from the early heyday of pianist Stan Tracey’s long career. Originally released on LPs by Columbia and then deleted, we can now once again hear these key sessions from Tracey’s quartet and big band from 1967 [...]
There have been plenty of good things written about the 21-year-old New Yorker Samara Joy since she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2019, and they’re richly deserved. Her vocal performances on saxophonist Ruben Fox’s recent album [...]
