Sebastian attended jazzahead! 2023 in Bremen, and writes about the fair, reflects on the UK presence or lack of it, and reports on a few of the 36 showcases… A SUCCESSFUL JAZZAHEAD In the wrap-up press release for jazzahead! 2023, [...]
Mondays With Morgan is a column in LondonJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves him – his main focus being the scene in nearby [...]
Singer Madeleine and pianist Salomon are a French duo with a “common desire for another world”. The album title evokes the Arab Spring: songs from the 60s and 70s that “echo… the protests of a youth thirsty for change…”. Madeleine [...]
Filomena Campus is a Sardinia-born, London-based jazz singer, theatre director and academic. For the latest in LJN’s series in which musicians write about recordings by their idols or formative influences, Filomena writes about Maria Pia De Vito, who has, she [...]
“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 [...]
In the Summer of 1967 Henry Threadgill, saxophonist and tyro composer, was asked to arrange a medley of national songs for a US army band. The result, he recalls, had some “angularity and dissonance” from his study of Monk and [...]
It’s no secret that South African jazz is going through an exciting and creative period, and one of the artists at the forefront of the scene is 37 year old pianist and producer Bokani Dyer. This is his sixth album [...]
