Ben Crosland has a new album, Songs of Solace and Reflection, showing his essence as “an unaffectedly lyrical composer of direct and evocative melodies that draw in the uninitiated and the jazz cognoscenti alike.” Plenty of turning points in the [...]
Already garnering attention from Dennis Chambers of the Mike Stern Band, for whom they opened at the Jazz Café in July, St. Barbe is a highly talented trio of Guildhall graduates who occupy the ground of alt-jazz-rock-electronica with an ease [...]
Oscar Peterson (known as OP) was a piano giant with phenomenal technique who synthesised all the lessons he’d learned from his influential deities: Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Mead ‘Lux’ Lewis, Bill Basie, Milt Buckner (daddy of block [...]
Swansong is an international jazz trio, formed in Berlin in 2010 by Hungarian pianist Gábor Csordás and Berklee-educated, Japanese electric bassist Noriaki (Nori) Hosoya. In 2016, Washington DC-based drummer Marty Risemberg took over from original drummer Andrea Zuliani. As well [...]
Mothers In Jazz” is a new 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 [...]
