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A new restaurant and live music venue offering “jazz, soul, gospel, reggae and much more”, Soul Mama, will open next month at The Gantry Hotel, Stratford with an opening season programme which includes Yellowjackets (3 Nov, two houses) and Bill [...]
Where do they serve the best pizza? In London. Don’t laugh. First let me tell you why: it’s because it is ‘spiced’ with jazz. Since 1969, Pizza Express on Dean Street, founded by Peter Boizot, has combined the roles of [...]
Like many who first heard the voice of Milton Nascimento on Wayne Shorter’s 1975 album Native Dancer, it was a moment hard to forget: that infinitely flexible, highly-pitched instrument whose sensitivity and sensuality seemed burned into the consonants of each [...]
Perpetual Mutations is an instrumental album of the highest quality; it doesn’t waver. I became aware of Antoine Fafard’s music through his electric bass playing and work with drummer Gary Husband on the 2016 album Sphere. What I wasn’t expecting [...]
