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The Drawing Room of Brown’s Hotel in Albermarle Street in the evening is an intimate and wonderfully welcoming space. It’s best known as one of London’s best destinations for tea in the daytime. But in the evening its different: a [...]
This 3-day event was a meeting of 10 musicians, where five from the UK were invited to work with five musicians living in Portugal, as part of the annual festival organised by Jazz ao Centro Clube Coimbra. The event’s imaginative [...]
Here’s one of those warming surprises as the nights draw in: a beautifully measured quartet album that displays a wit and intelligence in its mission to experiment with polyphony while still making for a hugely listenable set. It is also [...]
When I last heard Sweet Honey in the Rock weaving their vocal magic their guiding light Bernice Johnson Reagon was still a powerful force on stage. Reagon’s death in July this year has added a sober note to the group’s [...]
In 2022, Mexican American saxophonist Diego Rivera was commissioned by Chamber Music America to compose a jazz suite. He drew inspiration from la ofrenda (‘the offering’), namely an altar in a Mexican family’s home to remember loved ones on Las [...]
A new Festival in London! It’s always exciting to witness – and capture through my lens – a fresh addition to the city’s vibrant music scene. The inaugural POSK Festival of Jazz Voice at Jazz Café POSK brought together an [...]
Object Of Unknown Function is multi-intrumentalist Brandon Seabrook’s second solo album, coming ten years after his first, Sylphid Vitalizers. It features Seabrook on an array of instruments, electric and 12-string guitars, vintage banjos and even cassette recordings used as an [...]
On his third outing for the Blue Note label, alto-Sax maestro Immanuel Wilkins serves up his most ambitious record to date. Blues Blood is an expansive suite of tracks woven together by themes of personal and ancestral memory and above [...]
Frontwoman to Hejira, who honour and celebrate the music of Joni Mitchell, with several EPs under her belt, as well as the experience of all kinds of big festivals (Glastonbury, Field Day, Wilderness, Secret Garden Party, Cambridge Folk Festival, Latitude…) [...]
The spotlight shone on Nai Palm as Eventim Apollo welcomed Melbourne-based band Hiatus Kaiyote back to London, in the wake of their fourth studio album “Love Heart Cheat Code” (Brainfeeder/ Ninja Tune) released in June. If, like me, you’ve listened [...]
