The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and guitarist, bandleader, and composer Glenn Crytzer. His new project, The Songbook Sessions, is a 250-song anthology of standards and obscurities recorded live during the pandemic with his quartet: Mike [...]
It is heartening to report on a jazz venture getting off to such an auspicious start. Kings Place Hall One was more or less packed for the first ever concert of the venue’s new Jazz Orchestra, directed by trombonist/arranger/composer Callum [...]
At Belfast’s newest jazz club, black-clad, flame-haired Christine Tobin, unusually for her, presented a programme of songs from the Great American Songbook. Technically her accompanists, Hammond organist Myles Drennan, whom she said she had never met before, and drummer David [...]
While some albums are recorded in a single take, or more usually over two or three intense days in the studio, the eight meticulously detailed pieces of ‘Barene’ took rather longer to complete. The album’s title is of course no [...]
Fay Claassen is a Netherlands-based Jazz singer with a career of over 25 years and is a regular guest of highly renowned big bands and orchestras, from the Metropole Orkest, the Residentie Orkest and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra to the [...]
