UK Jazz News

November 14, 2024

Bristol Beacon, 10 November 2024.

An attractive lilting melody pauses, and an urgent, pulse-quickening riff kicks in, spun out by the bass and the piano player’s left – hand. It’s an exquisite blend of what could be calypso melded with a swirling folk dance, but [...]

Milton Court - Guildhall Jazz Orchestra and singers, Songs of Laura Nyro, 13 November 2024

Appearances in London by Billy Childs are rare, so his presence last night at Milton Court was reason enough to head out and hear him. The California pianist/composer was the star of a big and fascinatingly complex project, the whole [...]

New Queen's Hall Edinburgh 'Relaxed Concert' added - in partnership with Care UK

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra has added an extra performance to its Remembering Duke tour, which visits Glasgow, St Andrews and Edinburgh from 29 November to 1 December. In partnership with Care UK, the SNJO will present a relaxed afternoon edition of [...]

In the latest of our series where musicians consider their idols or formative influences, composer Philip Clemo picks music by Anouar Brahem that has left its mark on him: Anouar Brahem was born in the Medina of Tunis, Tunisia in [...]

rec. 2017

Norwegian trio Elephant9 creates a 21st-century schizoid child of the heaviest, riffiest elements of seventies prog and jazz-rock: something akin to early King Crimson and ELP crossed with Miles Davis’s Live Evil and Mahavishnu Orchestra’s Between Nothingness and Eternity. They [...]

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