The team at the festival told me they were expecting that the Montréalais would be out in big numbers this year in search of what is called “le fun” here. And they were right. On the evidence of this great [...]
Last November, the Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra (TLJO) spent three nights celebrating the 85th birthday of composer/arranger Mike Gibbs (reviewed by Patrick Hadfield) as part of the 2022 EFG London Jazz Festival. Continuing on in a similar theme, they returned [...]
For anybody unfamiliar with the members of this Franco-German trio, cellist Vincent Courtois’s career now spans four decades, his adventurous spirit gracing dozens of recordings by artists including Louis Sclavis, Rabih Abou-Khalil and Michele Rabbia. Saxophonist Daniel Erdmann rose to [...]
