The winners of the 2021 Scottish Jazz Awards were announced at a ceremony at Glasgow venue The Savings Bank on 8 December 2021: Best Vocalist Award sponsored by Whighams Jazz Club Marianne McGregor Best Instrumentalist Award sponsored by ESP Music [...]
Among the ten Ivor Novello Awards announced at the Ivors Composer Awards 2021 in a ceremony at the British Museum on 8 December 2021 were: Nikki Iles – ‘The Caged Bird’ – Award for Jazz Composition. The Ivors Academy jury [...]
This album is a homage to the Kinetika Bloco carnival group who are celebrating their 21st Anniversary, and especially to its founder and guiding light, Mat Fox, who died in 2014. This is in every sense an in-house project featuring [...]
Brian Molley‘s new release does exactly what it says on the label: the Glasgow-based saxophonist and composer has produced a collection of modern jazz that feels exactly as if it fits in the tradition. It is at once stimulating and [...]
The last few years have seen some excellent re-issues of British albums from the late 60s and early 70s that have presented a free-er approach to the music: The Spontaneous Music Ensemble’s Karyobin with John Stevens, Evans Parker, Kenny Wheeler, [...]
