Large ensemble Monk is back – thanks to a stimulating new collaboration between UK saxophonist Tony Kofi and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. This special celebration had its premiere at the Ipswich Jazz and Global Rhythm Festival on Saturday 2 [...]
Lavender Sutton attended the Saturday of the 2022 Love Supreme Festival. Recognised as “The most spectacular jazz festival in the country”, Love Supreme has become a highly anticipated weekend event hosting some of the best jazz, funk, R&B, Hip Hop [...]
A midge caught in the eyelash neither of us sure who is more afraid Roamer is “a quartet of Ireland’s most internationally recognised improvisers”, according to co-leader Matthew Jacobsen. That’s a fair judgment as it joins Jacobsen on drums with [...]
It was probably meant as a rhetorical question from bandleader/ drummer Allison Miller, but it definitely sounded like a sincere response to the warmth and the buoyant enthusiasm of the crowd gathered last night at one of the outlying free-stages [...]
This is going to be more than a bit embarrassing. And I apologise to the critic in the next seat. The Brazilian musician Hamilton de Holanda has the capacity to turn me into a totally besotted fan-boy. How am I [...]
“It really is a true collaborative environment between jazz and classical music, and we need that,” said American pianist Marcus Roberts in the theatre at The Grange, a 17th century mansion near Winchester. Roberts’ trio plus trombonist/vocalist Wycliffe Gordon were [...]
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival is offering music fans the chance to access part of its programme – even if they can’t get to Scotland’s capital city in person. A new digital hub will host twenty concerts, which are available [...]
You won’t forget your first encounter with the mischief and mania of Médéric Collignon – the wildman of the cornet, flugelhorn and other avant garde innovations of electronics, rubber tubing, and vocalisation. He is the ‘godfather’ of the estimable Couleurs [...]
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