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A good festival balances high quality and interesting programming with location and atmosphere. And it’s certainly so often that the location of the festival is not in the usual city but in “borderlands” with an openness to different cultures coming [...]
Legendary vocalist Elaine Delmar has a new album, about to be released. It is her first in ten years, and has been in the making since the harrowing days of Covid. Recorded on Ubuntu Music, Speak Low is, at last, [...]
“I originally started the festival because I found there were many similarities, to me, between the beautiful east Kent coast and the classic film Jazz on a Summer’s Day at the Newport Jazz Festival,” says Herne Bay Festival Director Kai [...]
Oliver Weindling informs us of a forthcoming event: “A GREAT DAY IN DALSTON, CALLING ALL MUSICIANS ON SUNDAY 30th JUNE AT 4.30 PM, WE’RE DOING A PHOTO OF AS MANY OF YOU AS POSSIBLE IN GILLETT SQUARE OUTSIDE THE VORTEX. [...]
“We should all stand up,” said Thomas Quasthoff. So we did. “And click our fingers on the two and the four of the bar.” That too. Brahms’s “Wiegenlied” Op. 49/4 had been ‘jazzed’ for us into 4/4, and became the [...]
It’s not hard to hear why pianist Clara Haberkamp is making waves on the German jazz scene. Plateaux is her new release, and her first that features Norwegian drummer Jarle Vespestad alongside her long-term collaborator Oliver Potratz on bass. The [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Korean-born, New York-based composer, arranger and conductor Jihye Lee. On 31 May, Lee followed up her acclaimed 2021 debut with Infinite Connections: a new large ensemble album released via [...]
Nicky Schrire is a British-South African vocalist and songwriter, and the founder of the “Mothers In Jazz” (*) series as published on LondonJazz News/ UK Jazz News. She thought it was about time she answered her own questions and shared [...]
