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March 14, 2022

13 March 2022.

“What the World Needs Now….” is – quite emphatically – more Bill Frisell. The gentleness, the bonhomie, the deeply civilised way of being…last night’s solo concert at Cadogan Hall was a sometimes poignant reminder of some of the values which [...]

Petter Eldh must be one of the most versatile, and indeed most brilliant, musicians in Europe. He is Swedish, but studied in Denmark at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory where he joined Django Bates’ wonderfully esoteric StoRMChaser big band. He has continued his [...]

Tube’s, Graz. 10 March 2022 (Belmondo/Lightsey) and 11 March 2022 (Keïta/Brönnimann/Niggli

Tube’s is a new venue in Graz in the south-eastern corner of Austria. The capital of Steiermark is an important city for culture in general with an amazing Kunsthaus. It is also a lively centre for jazz, being home to [...]

Henry Spencer releases a new music video today. The Survivor and The Descendant is the title track of his EP released in October 2021. His band (Henry Spencer, trumpet, flugelhorn, compositions; Ant Law, guitar; Matt Robinson, piano, fender Rhodes; Jason [...]

At the tail-end of January, Idris Rahman and Liran Donin quietly released this record of their duet of reeds and acoustic bass respectively. Recorded over a few hours in a deserted (and subsequently demolished) church in East London, it is [...]

Well this is an extraordinary album, not extraordinarily good, not extraordinarily bad – just extraordinary. Being the manager of Brad Mehldau‘s record label must require an indulgent heart. While the pianist has recorded some of the best jazz trio albums [...]

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