Steven Bensusan, President of Blue Note Entertainment Group states in this morning’s press release, confirming our news story from Friday: “We’re excited to be coming to London and grateful to Westminster Council for recognising what Blue Note can bring to [...]
It’s rare to hear vocal groups at jazz festivals these days, so I was delighted to meet up with members of Flight Call when they appeared at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. The trio of singers – Pete Horsfall, Lucy-Anne Daniels [...]
The Cheltenham Jazz Festival has always had a wide mix of styles, from big name Americans, to jazz influenced pop artists to soul singers. Alongside all those the Parabola Arts Centre (PAC) is a longstanding part of the festival that [...]
Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Dave Douglas’s artist-led Greenleaf Music has been both a dependable outlet for his own work and a platform for such emerging artists as Kneebody, Matt Ulery and Linda Oh. Still just about falling into [...]
Just a few dates to go on their current European tour and James Brandon Lewis’s trio find themselves on stage in the somewhat chilly marquee that Cheltenham rather grandly call their Jazz Arena at 12.30 p.m. on a Sunday. That [...]
Saxophonist Guido Spannocchi’s weekly residency at the Bloomsbury Club is quietly one of London’s finest ongoing organ trio gigs. Featuring Pete Whittaker on Crumar organ and Alfonso Vitale on drums, the group played varied repertoire including bebop standards, Latin tunes, [...]
Eleven spellbinding concerts are set to light up Friday nights in Nine Elms, with internationally acclaimed artists from the UK and beyond. This summer, World Heart Beat presents its inaugural Jazz in the Gardens concert series — an exciting new [...]
Sienna Dahlen: Certain voices sound like some primal extension of the elements. Pure, channeled emotion.Jeff Buckley, Sidsel Endresen, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Joni Mitchell… Andy Bey’s voice was made of the earth. That vibrato, the wind. The interpretation of the words and [...]
