The afternoon performance for Sarah L King’s debut album Fire Horse at Pizza Express Dean Street on 18th February was sold-out, abuzz with many familiar faces, fans old and new looking forward to the captivating performance ahead. The musical journey [...]
(Jazz) piano, harmonica and accordion: three instruments with distinctive musical associations that don’t immediately suggest themselves as harmonious bedfellows in a chamber music format. How might such divergent instrumental “personalities” work together? Could their qualities converge to form a “new” [...]
Buster Birch is one of the hardest-working jazz educators in the business. A former visiting jazz professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, for the past 19 years he’s been a director of the UK’s original and largest jazz summer school, in Barry, [...]
Since the mid-sixties when he played baritone saxophone with the Mike Westbrook Band, John Surman has been one of the most instantly recognisable voices in jazz. In part, it’s because of his unusual choice of horns: soprano and baritone saxophones, [...]
