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Whether touring around the UK, or as one of the bands picked by Jamie Cullum for his showcase at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2016, the Remi Harris Hot Club Trio wins over audiences. Much of their current tour is [...]
There is a magical moment at the end of Part Two of this interview which young singers Becky Alice and Rebecka Edlund did with Norma Winstone at her house in Kent. Just as Cezanne wrote of the wisdom gained by [...]
There’s something of a resurgence in jazz harp at the moment.. On 7 May, Ben Creighton Griffiths brings his Cardiff-based ‘harp-led, electro-acoustic jazz fusion band’ Chube for its London debut at Pizza Express in Dean Street. On a Zoom call [...]
“Mike Gibbs’s contribution to Orchestras should be considered as one of his greatest achievements!” writes Ed Puddick. The album ‘Bill Frisell: Orchestras’ will be released on 19 April on Blue Note, so we asked Ed, Mike’s closest collaborator in recent [...]
A Tokyo native, Meg Okura is a Grammy-nominated violinist and award-winning composer. With B.Mus. and M.Mus. degrees from the Juilliard School as a violin performance major, she made the difficult decision to switch to jazz upon graduation, going on to [...]
Bassist/vocalist’s second album Nature is a Mother is released on 5 April 2024. It “has evolved out of a need to communicate her responses to the world around her through her maturation as a musician and bandleader.” Bass player Charlie [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and the superlative saxophonist, composer and educator Dayna Stephens. His upcoming album, Closer Than We Think, which releases 5 April via Cellar Music Group, features guitarist Emmanuel Michael, bassist Kanoa [...]
Holly Norman is a drummer, percussionist, songwriter and composer based in Perth, Western Australia. An alumnus of the University of Miami and WA Academy of Performing Arts, Holly is a serial collaborator, blending her classical and jazz backgrounds to platform [...]
Guitarist/composer Billy Marrows recorded his debut album with the 12-piece chamber-jazz ensemble A Grande Família in the summer of 2023 as a surprise for his mother Penny during her struggle with pancreatic cancer. The album was released in her memory [...]
When Ben Higham looks ahead to the album launch for The Brass Monkeys’ latest release, Lullabite, at PizzaExpress in Dean Street on 28 April he says, “It’ll be cosy.” With eight musicians playing instruments including tuba and French horn, alongside [...]
