Mondays With Morgan is a column in UKJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves in — his main focus being the scene in nearby [...]
For the first eight bars of ‘Shinebox,’ the opening track on Ginger’s Hollow, the rhythm section – pianist Cian Boylan and American duo bassist Mark Egan and drummer Adam Nussbaum – have the stage to themselves. They make the most [...]
This night was a pleasure to behold and brought together friends from all corners of University of Nottingham music lecturer, writer and performer Simon Paterson’s life. Paterson is double bassist in the house band of popular, Parliamentary Award-winning Nottingham jazz [...]
“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 [...]
Naïssam Jalal is a flautist, vocalist and composer born to Syrian parents in France. Keen to explore her musical roots, she studied at the Higher Institute of Arab Music in Damascus, and also later with a private teacher in Cairo [...]
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi had the honour of opening this year’s Norfolk and Norwich Festival with a performance in the venerable St Andrew’s Hall. The hall, the largest of this year’s festival venues, started life as the nave of [...]
The Oxley-Meier Guitar Project has just released its fifth album, ‘Mercurial Indigo’ (MGPCD026) and is currently on a national tour performing music from the album. As is normal for the two co-leaders, they have shared the writing duties equally across [...]
