Ronnie Scott’s has just put on sale a number of shows from June to November. They include a three-night residency for the seven-piece Mingus Dynasty, whose members, as listed on the Ronnie Scott’s site, are: BORIS KOZLOV bass; ALEX SIPIAGIN [...]
Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark…myths…legends… These are the mysterious places to which SNJO’s new project, also involving Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, actor Blythe Duff and a selection of Scottish traditional musicians, wants to take listeners. Harry Potter, Hogmanay, the Disney-Pixar [...]
When the album To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 was released in early 2020 on Chicago-based International Anthem label, by Mancunian multi-instrumentalist and composer Alabaster DePlume (Gus Fairbairn), it was exactly the kind of record a world confronting the [...]
At last, Bertrand Tavernier’s ‘Round Midnight is re-released today (9 May 2022) on Blu-ray by Criterion. The film, originally made in 1986, is master film director Tavernier’s impressionistic love letter to the Black American bebop musicians who, escaping the appalling [...]
Discus Music, the Sheffield-based label run by Martin Archer, continues to commission excellent albums of cutting edge music. This month it has launched two new albums: one features a quintet led by improvising saxophonist Paul Dunmall. and the other is [...]
