Whether thrashing a keyboard with indie art-rockers Maxïmo Park, hammering avant-hard jazzpunk soundscapes with trio J Frisco, or manically dancing with her trip-hop-influenced freese-trio to express the fight-or-flight state – there’s a physicality and theatricality to the abundant creative work [...]
Jerry & The Pelican System aka Jerzy Mączyński, a young Polish jazz and experimental saxophonist and composer, will present music from his latest release “Sariani”, combining electronic ambient textures with a deeply rooted love for free jazz, on Saturday 2 [...]
Call me a pedant, but shouldn’t this album title read ‘Meshuga Bubbele’? For non-Yiddish speakers, the expression ‘meshuga’ has multiple interpretations: ‘crazy’, ‘screwball’, ‘unconstrained’ or even ‘out-of-control’. ‘Bubbele’, as you’ll have probably guessed by now, means ‘baby’. Judging by the [...]
The Jazz Weekend of the Buxton International Festival 2022 will present something of a coup, the first appearance since 2015 of The Impossible Gentlemen, in what is described as a “2022 version” with Laurence Cottle on bass and Ian Thomas [...]
Sarah Chaplin, who runs the jazzlondonlive.com listings website, which since 2017 has been the online successor to Jazz in London, also does a weekly jazz radio show for Brooklands Radio (DAB and internet). The 200th episode of Sarah’s radio show [...]
In celebration of its 30th anniversary, EFG London Jazz Festival held a long weekend of concerts at the Barbican (previewed here). The fourth and final evening involved the SFJAZZ Collective, with Gretchen Parlato and Chris Potter, with tracks from the [...]
