UK Jazz News

February 7, 2022

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Fans of guitar jazz may well already be familiar with Scott McLemore‘s previous Multiverse album, which also used this interesting two-guitar format to deliver a very melodic album. This is about as multinational as a group can get. McLemore is [...]

In the latest of our series in which musicians write about their sources of inspiration, the pianist, composer, and philosopher Steve Tromans writes about his long-term admiration for, and association with, the music of Derek Bailey. Derek Bailey to Tromans [...]

3 February 2021.

7pm Concert in the church: Adorna album launch/ London premiere with Opus Anglicanum 9.15pm: Trio in the crypt with Orlando Le Fleming and Troy Miller This very well-attended two-concert evening at St Martin in the Fields showed very contrasting aspects [...]

Vermillion is Kit Downes‘ third album as leader on ECM, the first being his church organ exploration Obsidian, and the second the Dreamlife of Debris album recorded with a quintet including Tom Challenger, Lucy Railton, Stian Westerhus and Seb Rochford. [...]

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 30 January 2022

Opening this typically eclectic Celtic Connections gig were Jyotsna Srikanth and Justyna Jablońska, violin and cello respectively, playing carnatic music from South India’s classical traditions. What’s more, the audience was up-for-it, their ears open. Srikanth took the time to explain [...]

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