Gioachino Rossini danced with the Count – Basie that is, not Almaviva – on this Autumn evening in Cambridge. It is thirty years since Westbrook’s Big Band Rossini featured at the BBC Proms and another eight since his settings from [...]
This year’s Europe Jazz Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria presented a showcase programme, giving Bulgaria as host country the opportunity to present a snapshot of the jazz scene in their country to festival and club programmers. Ten bands performed in the [...]
Words aren’t going to do justice to an occasion as powerful and memorable as this… there may be some photos along later… so for the moment we go analogue and factual: here are the set lists of a very special [...]
