Art Themen has recently bought a tenor saxophone, a Selmer Super Balanced Action which was owned by Ronnie Scott, and will play it at the Frith Street club on 14 June. Hats off (seriously) to the copywriter at Ronnie Scott’s [...]
Best-known for his work with Miles Davis on the iconic soundtrack to Louis Malle’s film noir ‘Lift to the Scaffold’ (‘Ascenseur pour l’échafaud’) released in 1958, and further collaborations with Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke and a host of [...]
Saturday night’s concert concluded bassist Christian McBride‘s tenure as artist-in-residence at Wigmore Hall. During the past year, there have been three performances, first alongside pianist Jason Moran last autumn (reviewed by Chris Parker), then an evening with three-fifths of his [...]
After the pandemic twice scuppered the unveiling of some of the most idiomatically diverse new music of his versatile career, trumpeter /composer Chris Batchelor, with the quintet Zoetic, is now finally touring the UK until July (full list of venues [...]
Ever since Joe Pass’ legendary ‘Virtuoso’ series of unaccompanied albums from the late 1970s, the solo recording has been something of a rite-of-passage for guitarists and we are now blessed with many examples of the craft from the likes of [...]
