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April 14, 2025

The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and jazz pianist, organist, composer, and arranger Larry Goldings. His new album, I Will, featuring bassist Karl McComas-Reichl and drummer Christian Euman, was released 14 February via Sam First Records. [...]

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Who needs another album of Gershwin interpretations? Well, it turns out we do.  Pianist Gabriel Latchin’s The Man I Love is something of a revelation right from its opening moments. The pointillist delicacy of his introduction to ‘Summertime’ – like [...]

Elephant Inn in North Finchley (6 Apr), 606 Club (9 Apr) Imber Court in East Molesey (13 Apr)

I have been to three of the ten concerts of Ralph Moore’s “Homecoming Tour” in the past week. It has, quite simply put, been a joy – even if occasionally surreal – to hear and to connect with the real [...]

with James Allsopp, Mike Soper and Huw V. Williams

Bad Trad is the name of the band, as well as the album – led by London-resident drummer Jay Davis who here offers the first recording with a top drawer quartet of James Allsopp on reeds, Mike Soper on trumpet [...]

6 April, Woodside Halls. Counterflows 2025, Glasgow

A tiny “yay!” split the sacred silence prior to performance, and audience and musicians alike broke into laughter. Sonic Bothy shortly commenced their noisemaking, but the smiles never left their faces. With a staggering array of tools at their disposal, [...]

"There’s no such thing as finding a ‘true balance'."

For years Peter Eldridge has remained at the forefront of both the singer-songwriter and jazz realms as a vocalist, pianist, composer, and arranger. Peter was head of the Manhattan School of Music’s jazz voice department for eighteen years and is [...]

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