The EFG London Jazz Festival has taken a Barnet Primary School, Frith Manor, by storm as they celebrated the inauguration of their new Yamaha baby grand piano with a concert by internationally recognised (and school parent) Zoe Rahman. In 2020, [...]
Over the past few years, Abdullah Ibrahim (born Cape Town, South Africa, 9 October 1934) has shared his birthday with an enthusiastic audience in the Hirzinger Hall, Riedering, Germany. But in 2020 the circumstances around his 86th birthday gig changed. [...]
The Beyond Margins series at the London Jazz Festival presents artists who don’t usually appear in the pages of jazz. The dark electroacoustic chamber pop of WoodKid has little in common with the warm indie rock of Yo La Tengo, [...]
The Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra in full flight is a thing to behold. Often, as a solo ends, the full richness of the 18-piece ensemble is unleashed and vaulting melodic lines are passed around the sections, buoyed by rich, bitter-sweet [...]
The 47th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections is a notable return to the limelight for a piano master. Andrew Hill hadn’t recorded for half a dozen years, so it was a great thing when he made this LP (and the [...]
This was a very Norwegian gig. Sure, there were three Norwegian musicians on stage. Trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, drummer Erland Dahlen and bassist Jo Berger Myhre. But what I mean was this was a showcase for why Norway is, in my [...]
As homecomings go, this one was a rip-snorter! Bill Laurance – who started his career as Snarky Puppy’s keyboardist but has over the last six years garnered more renown arguably as a solo artist – told an anecdote he had shared [...]
