UK Jazz News

November 6, 2023

New album ‘Ultraviolet’

This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Billy Mohler, a celebrated bassist and bandleader who also plays in fusion group the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex. His third album as a leader, Ultraviolet, is [...]

The short title above tells just one story about last night’s Barbican concert (*). Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir, one of the very happiest and best (and yet still relatively little known) sounds in London’s musical life made it onto the [...]

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Kurt Elling introduced the show with “Thank you for coming out to hear some disgruntled jazz musicians mid week”. As it turned out, disgruntled couldn’t have been further from the truth. The band hit the ground running with a couple [...]

Duncan Heining’s book, And Did Those Feet – Six British Jazz Composers, has just been published by Jazz in Britain. The book examines in detail the lives and works of six major figures in British music – Michael Garrick, Mike [...]

At a time when 20-30 new albums land on a jazz reviewer’s desk each week, it is not easy for a recording to stand out from the crowd. But Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s “Kairos (Kefi)” managed to catch my attention in Spotify’s [...]

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Spha Mdlalose, the latest artist to be featured in the Mothers in Jazz series, is a South African singer and songwriter. A graduate of the University of Cape Town’s College of Music, she has been steadily making her mark in [...]

Someone once described jazz-rock fusion as free jazz with a backbeat. It’s a moniker that suits the music of Bristol super-group Get the Blessing perfectly. Named after an Ornette Coleman tune (The Blessing, from ’Something Else!!!!’) but forced to adapt [...]

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