Award-winning UK pianist David Gordon draws on Latin music, modern jazz and Bach’s compositions for his new album released on Mister Sam Records. He’s worked with Jacqui Dankworth, Andy Sheppard, John Etheridge and Wynton Marsalis as well as being an [...]
Mike Westbrook’s wonderfully extended career has covered a range from big bands to small groups and, occasionally, solo piano performances. But his most lasting achievements have probably been as composer and arranger for large-scale forces. Here, newly restored, is one [...]
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The Finnish record label TUM has been doing an impressive job of documenting Wadada Leo Smith’s work for more than a decade, and this year – Smith’s 80th – they have taken the job even more seriously. A solo boxset, [...]
For his first full-length studio album for Ubuntu Music, Portrait, London-based pianist and composer Bruno Heinen has gathered together a truly outstanding quartet he calls The W. As he told Sebastian in an interview in May 2022 (LINK BELOW), this [...]
“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 [...]
