Composer, keyboard player and most of all a sublime trumpet player, Laura Jurd is constantly experimenting with the boundaries of jazz. Her 2019 album Stepping Back, Jumping In revisited the work with strings she first embarked on in her debut [...]
Quite the Mayday weekend for Iain Ballamy. He premiered a saxophone concerto written for him in Cardiff on Friday night (see Mike Collins review here). A first contribution to Cheltenham jazz festival followed on Saturday afternoon, when he helped Denny [...]
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales were the hosts for this concert in the well-appointed surroundings of the Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff’s Millennium Centre. Their guest, in one of their CoLaboratory series of concerts was French-Irish musical polymath, violinist, composer [...]
The LJN (UKJN) team’s coverage of the 2022 Cheltenham Jazz Festival has been substantial. Jon Turney, Peter Slavid and photographer John Watson have done a great job. We have published their reviews of Lucia Cadotsch and Zoe Rahman’s groups, of [...]
Saxophonist/flautist/pianist/bandleader/educator David Angol was born near Preston in Lancashire to parents originally from Dominica. A graduate of Middlesex University he has a long CV in music. He played in the group US3 which recorded several albums for Blue Note. He [...]
