Adam Wakeman’s incendiary 2020 documentary “Before Black Sabbath: there was Jazz Sabbath”(LINK) broke a story that shocked the worlds of jazz and heavy metal, turning a half century of musical history on its head. It was the revelation that the [...]
Dave Holland’s regular appearances at the London festival have settled at Cadogan Hall for the last few times round. This year he brought the all-star quartet who have toured intermittently since the mid-teens, with his long-time front-line choice Chris Potter [...]
Jazz in Britain today is a fabulous melange of influences from African, Asian, Caribbean and European styles as well as from classic American jazz. But back in the 1960s it was very different. Back then British jazz was almost exclusively [...]
You could call 2022 the “Chicago Edition” of the London Jazz Festival, a celebration of the creative relationship between Chicago and London, a longstanding exchange that has enriched each side. Headline concerts from Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, Matana Roberts, Makaya [...]
Founded in 2015 by the jazz vocalist Ahmed Harfoush, the Egyptian Jazz Projekt has a mission to restore the rich melodic soundworld of 1950s and 1960s Egypt, revitalising classic songs by drawing on popular jazz idioms. And yet, as Harfoush [...]
Forty-four years after its original release, the “Jazz Semai” album, widely considered the beginning of Turkish jazz, has been released on all digital platforms as of November 11, 2022. The original pressing of the first edition was a mere 500 [...]
