The 46th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections is an early landmark from a great soprano saxophone exponent. Jane Ira Bloom is a brilliant player and composer who has never, to my mind, quite had the attention her work deserves. Like [...]
Some other guitarists don’t just plug in the guitar but a whole paraphernalia of other equipment too…. and some other guitarists have big egos or make a lot of noise… and some other guitarists attempt to be invincible and defy [...]
The two greatest challenges facing any jazz trumpeter are developing a distinctive musical voice on the instrument, and maintaining a long career without the lip giving out. Eddie Henderson has certainly achieved both with distinction: a gloriously melodic and passionate [...]
This was a very enjoyable double-bill from two bands who had a fair bit of travel to arrive in London. From Northern Ireland, the Robocobra Quartet and from Newcastle, Archipelago. Both bands seem to have brought a group of travelling [...]
I have coaxed friends to many strange and unpredictable concerts, but this week’s “Sesame Street Trombone Jazz” was one of the more unusual invitations. Yet after Open Sesame’s album launch for Fuzzy and Blue – Joe Fiedler’s second collection of adaptations of [...]
A wonderfully lyrical bassist who announced himself as a solo artist back in 1973 (with the excellent The Colours Of Chloe), Eberhard Weber has, since then, cemented what amounts to the perfect fit between artist and label. Weber’s highly atmospheric [...]
Scottish multi-instrumentalist Fraser Fifield, born in London, raised in Aberdeenshire and now based in Fife, straddles many genres – predominantly traditional music, but he also collaborates with jazz, classical and dance musicians, playing a plethora of pipes, whistles and reed [...]
Two appearances by Camae Ayewa, usually known as Moor Mother, one as solo artist in a co-promotion by the Pitchfork Festival and the London Jazz Festival, and one as co-leader of the band Irreversible Entanglements were major events in the [...]
