Earlier this year, Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek turned 75. In celebration of this landmark birthday, he took the stage at the Royal Festival Hall with his quartet as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, coinciding with the festival’s own [...]
Vocalist/songwriter Heidi Vogel, together with musical director Ivo Neame, has prepared a very special evening of songs to celebrate Sarah Vaughan. It will premiere at Jazz Café POSK on Saturday 26 November 2022. Vocalist with The Cinematic Orchestra since 2006, [...]
It’s received wisdom that avant-garde jazz appeals only to a small audience. That was definitely not the case here at a packed Barbican. The audience for this concert had been warmed up nicely by a ferocious bout of free improvisation [...]
So many European festivals have lost funding this year, as political crisis piles on economic crisis and governments cut back. The Belgrade Jazz Festival was no exception, though the budget cuts came at alarmingly short notice, and not only from [...]
Disc 1: Mississippi River Blues Disc 2: Fort Valley Blues Disc 3: Out in the Cold Again Disc 4: Boot That Thing Disc 5: Two White Horses Standin’ in Line Disc 6: Jack O’ Diamonds Containing music originally released in [...]
A slow string bass groove deep enough to sink into, embroidered from the drums, was an immediately seductive, no-nonsense start to this riveting early show at a sold-out Pizza Express. By the time Linda May Han Oh and Jeff Ballard – an orchestra in [...]
“Mothers In Jazz” is a series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry figures who work with and hire musicians who are [...]
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