As with a book, you can’t judge a jazz album by its cover. But when the artwork is as lovely as that adorning Sandra-Mae Lux’s Seasons In Jazz, you can’t help feeling we’re already halfway home… Sandra-Mae Lux is one [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’ review of the U.S. premiere of Carla Bley’s Escalator Over the Hill, at the New School in New York City, on May 2. Despite the event being more than a half-century in the [...]
The Euroradio Jazz Orchestra, produced by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is currently celebrating its 60th birthday, with a programme culminating in concerts tonight, 12 May at the Cukrarna in Ljubljana (Jazz Ars All Stars) and on 13 May at the Kontesa [...]
Bass player Huw V Williams, originally hailing from rural North Wales, has collaborated with musicians in the field of jazz and improvised music including Jim Black, Huw Warren, Jeff Williams, Laura Jurd, Emma Frank and Ivo Neame. As well as [...]
Polish-born violinist, singer and composer Agata Kubiak has been active on London’s jazz and contemporary classical scenes since she moved to the UK in 2007. Some of her activities during this time include: the release of her debut album, Polarity, [...]
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 [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist/composer Shai Maestro. His new album, Solo: Miniatures & Tales, was released 2 May via naïve records. Links to stream the album and to Maestro’s website can be found [...]
Muhammad Dawjee is a South African saxophonist, composer, researcher & educator from the indian apartheid group-area, Laudium, on the western outskirts of Pretoria. He sees improvisation as a research process and has collaborated with Dr Abdullah Ibrahim, Andile Yenana and [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Israel-born, New York-based guitarist/composer Gilad Hekselman. His new album with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Marcus Gilmore, Downhill From Here, was released 25 April via La Reserve Records. Links [...]
