On Saturday night Manel Fortià returned to New York for the launch of his latest album, Despertar. A set nestled in the middle of the first night of the 5th Mediterranean Jazz Festival at Drom in Alphabet City in the East Village. I [...]
FORJ play music the way you want it to be played, with a creativity resistant to running orders but respectful to form and playful with it, and rich in personal expression expressing a strong group identity. Moment by moment, the [...]
Welsh-born singer Judith Owen has strong stories to tell in her new album “Come On and Get It”, which will be released in September, and a great team to help her tell them. There is musical royalty from the city [...]
Did the great baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams succeed in transforming the small jazz gig into an art form all his own? Listening to this painstakingly restored and meticulously annotated issue of tapes made for a local radio station in a [...]
BBC Radio 3 have announced today the next cohort of participants in their New Generation Artists scheme. Pianist Fergus McCreadie becomes the eighth jazz musician to join the scheme (full list of the others below). The new cohort of musicians [...]
