“It feels like a celebration to me!” says bassist Alison Rayner of her quintet ARQ’s new album ‘SEMA4’. As jazz decades go, the 1980s was a pretty good one – not least for the return of Miles Davis from a [...]
The wonderfully atmospheric (and posh) Drawing Room in the five-star Brown’s Hotel in Albemarle Street had a pilot season of musician-led gigs last autumn, and is about to re-start on 11 March, with pianists Liam Dunachie and Matyas Gayer as [...]
This latest Julia Hülsmann release on ECM conceals plenty of treats below its surface. The Quartet is a Quintet for much of the recording, with pianist Hülsmann and the now established line-up of Uli Kempendorff on tenor, Marc Muellbauer on [...]
