UK Jazz News

October 27, 2023

The first notes of Marc Copland’s new release Someday are instantly, warmly, familiar and slightly unsettling as harmony is recast on the hoof, and melody weaves and distorts to complement it. The treatment of Someday My Prince Will Come is [...]

Timișoara, Romania. 23-24 Sept.

For too many years it has been too easy for us in the far west of Europe to undervalue the jazz scene in Romania. Under communism, jazz bubbled somewhat underground, but it has now been blossoming, both in terms of [...]

It’s twenty years since the pianist and composer Art Hirahara moved to New York City from the Bay Area, and in that time he’s become highly respected as a leader, sideman and educator. This is Hirahara’s ninth album for Posi-Tone [...]

Unusually for a guitarist’s album, there’s not an overabundance of guitar on ‘Graduale’ by the Finnish composer and instrumentalist Niklas Winter. Instead, Winter – who is due to play the music from the album with his own quartet and the [...]

A member of Kris Davis’ progressive Pyroclastic Records stable, pianist Angelica Sanchez has gathered together some big hitters on the New York jazz scene, such as Chris Speed (tenor sax, clarinet), Kenny Warren (cornet), Ben Goldberg (contra alto clarinet) and [...]

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