Latest Jazz News from London and beyond
London has many great jazz venues but none with mountain views. ‘New Sounds, Beautiful Views’ is the slogan of the Suedtirol Jazz Festival. It sounds like a long way away, but a flight to Verona brings you very close. The [...]
Vocalist Irene Serra fronts this excellent band- they’ll be playing their self-penned songs from the 2012 album -isq (Cheesepeas Records) as well as a new album, out this autumn. They take their influences from far and wide: – Irene Serra [...]
Winter’s blowing in, but the Sardinian sun is coming to London’s Pizza Express for three nights. Sardinian vocalist Filomena Campus, who lives partly in London, plans to ‘bring the sunshine and the warmth of my island through our music.’ Mon [...]
Nigerian composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer Femi Kuti spoke to Alison Bentley ahead of his gig at Camden’s Jazz Cafe on Nov. 4th and 5th (tickets HERE). He spoke from Lagos about his music, his new album (No Place For My [...]
Kevin Mahogany will open the ReVoice! Festival, Pizza Express, Dean Street. Thurs. 10th & Fri. 11th Oct. Alison Bentley has previewed the show AND also interviewed him. A rare UK visit from the great US vocalist Kevin Mahogany, with his [...]
Alison Bentley previews the gig and CD recording by the Alison Rayner Quintet at the Vortex on Tuesday 13th August 2013 Is this a first? A female British bass-player making her debut recording of her own compositions- live? Alison Rayner [...]
Alison Bentley interviewed singer-songwriter/guitarist Sarah Gillespie and previews the Sarah Gillespie Quartet’s gigs at Pizza Express Dean Street on the 10th and 11th July with Gilad Atzmon, Kit Downes, Ben Bastin, and Enzo Zirilli. Singer-songwriter/guitarist Sarah Gillespie’s favourite jazz singer [...]
Spring can really hang you up the most, as the song says- especially when it blows hot and cold. Summer’s already arrived in Sardinia, and they’re organising a Jazz Festival to celebrate the solstice and full moon (‘plenilunio’-even the word [...]
Fri 16 November: Celluloid Inspiration LOOKS LIKE JAZZ/BUSTER PLAYS BUSTERSat 17 November: The Guest Stars ON FILM, IN CONVERSATION, LIVE PERFORMANCE What should jazz look like? What should film sound like? Popular guitarist Deirdre Cartright and bassist Alison Rayner are [...]
A major and universally liked figure in British jazz, and the founding father of British jazz education, trombonist, pianist, arranger, composer, educator Eddie Harvey, passed away peacefully yesterday, Tuesday October 9th, just a few weeks before his 87th birthday. In [...]
