Susie York Skinner (*) is Chief Executive of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO). NYJO, as she explains in this interview for International Women’s Day, is much more than a large ensemble putting on professional concerts. Whereas this – inevitably – [...]
Bassist/composer Steve Berry has strong views about improvisation – “a core skill and human right that no musician should be denied” – and his new project at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester does exactly what it says on [...]
The first of the quartet’s six performances at Ronnie’s, this early set completely blew me away. Part of the power was probably due to having been starved of live music for two whole years, and probably having forgotten what a [...]
