Over the course of his twenty-year career, French bassist Théo Girard has built a strong reputation recording and performing with Macha Gharibian, his father Bruno Girard’s acclaimed ensemble Bratsch and many others. In recent years, Girard has released several albums [...]
Leeds-raised guitarist Stan Brunt, it is announced today, becomes the eighth and final winner of the Richard Turner Prize at the Royal Academy of Music. FULL TEXT OF THE RAM PRESS RELEASE: The Royal Academy of Music is pleased to [...]
The 51st of Jon Turney’s weekly selections finds an undersung tenor player reaching for the heights. There are any number of great tenor saxophone players who never quite achieve the recognition they deserve. Take Bennie Wallace. His discography is high [...]
Chris Laurence’s album, Kenny Wheeler: Some Gnu Ones, was recently released on the Jazz in Britain label. The realisation of the composition ‘Piece for Double Bass and Low Strings’ for the album was done by Pete Churchill. Here (*), Pete [...]
This will not be news to regular listeners to The Jazz Podcast: for a few months, the programme, started in February 2017 by Rob Cope and Dan Farrant, and with a catalogue of well over a hundred episodes, has had [...]
