The passing of Charlie Watts has provoked many tributes in the UK. And yet his reputation and influence go way beyond these shores. T Bruce Wittet, a Canadian musician and writer, pays tribute to “the drummer who listened and allowed [...]
The 34th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features a powerful trio who breathe as one. Yes, it’s Tommy Flanagan, so you get impeccable, beautifully articulated piano playing. But this is also about the trio. Elvin Jones is a challenge for [...]
Annabel Williams is THE vocal coach. She has had the role for nearly a decade at both X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent. She has worked with over two hundred chart-topping artists. Her app, The Vocal Coach, gives sound, calm [...]
“Musician, sound engineer, record producer, author, painter.” and former club owner. The great British bassist Peter Ind passed away last night, 20 August 2021, at the age of 93. Bassist Peter Ind, who has died at the age of 93, [...]
FONT, the Festival of New Trumpet Music, was co-founded by Dave Douglas and the late Roy Campbell Jr. in 2003. As another Festival approaches, Dave Douglas explains in an email interview the concept behind it, and looks forward to this [...]
The 33rd of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) is all about the horns. Among early releases from the World Saxophone Quartet, this live set stands out, as live sets often do. It also says unequivocally that Julius Hemphill was [...]
An hour of unrehearsed live interaction on a festival stage back in 2007 provides John Fordham with ‘a rejuvenating late-career bonus at the end of a sombre year for performing artists’. He interviews reedsman Tony Coe and pianist John Horler [...]
Icelandic guitarist Mikael Máni’s second album Nostalgia Machine is a crossover work of confidently understated melodic refinement. The text accompanying Mikael Máni’s new album says that in his music the young guitarist “aims to portray how the emotions felt while [...]
The 32nd of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) impresses with drumming of cherishable ferocity. I loved the albums Jack DeJohnette made as leader in the late 1970s and early ’80s. They were raucous, loose-limbed affairs, with a brilliant roster [...]
The Jazz Sanctuary is a monthly music event in South West London which brings together established and emerging artists from the UK jazz scene. Promoter/organiser Sarah Meyer talked to AJ Dehany about a club that’s now making surprising and confident [...]
Receive our weekly email newsletter with Jazz updates from London and beyond.
Please check your inbox (and also your spam or junk folder, just in case) for our confirmation email.
If you’ve been on our list all along, great! No need to do anything.
Please check your inbox (and also your spam or junk folder, just in case) for our confirmation email.
If you’ve been on our list all along, great! No need to do anything.