The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival’s Scottish Jazz Weekend has become a regular add-on to the summer festival, and a welcome relief to an otherwise bleak November. This celebration of Scottish jazz was opened by the Ewan Hastie Trio. A [...]
It’s been five years since the great piano-bass-drums trio Phronesis’ last recording appeared, but they had such a strong presence it still feels like there is a gap their next release might fill. This isn’t it, but a new set [...]
At first glance, it might seem that tenor saxophonist and composer Alex Hitchcock has pulled together a supergroup big band for this album, full of luminaries of the UK jazz scene. A closer inspection, however, shows that he’s done something more [...]
