Please, please will the UK jazz community do something fitting to mark the 80th birthday of Jim Mullen this November. Declare the guitar great a national monument…give him the freedom of a city like Glasgow or London…a gong…a nice tall [...]
The dreary months of lockdown bore fruit for many musicians, pushing them to seek innovative means of engaging with their followers– and often finding a new, online global audience while so doing. Pianist Emmet Cohen is one such performer: his [...]
The Monheim Triennale in the Rhineland in Northern Germany is a unique festival. It has a three year cycle, consisting of Sound in the first year, in which a number of installations are created; The Prequel in the second year, in which the Signature [...]
In the second of our Love Supreme round-ups, Evie Hill, who was there for the whole festival, picks a few of her favourite acts from the weekend… Another year, another beautiful time at Love Supreme Jazz Festival in East Sussex. [...]
It’s always a great pleasure to hear the music of major American jazz stars, and Norway’s Kongsberg Jazz Festival certainly featured a strong contingent, including guitarist John Scofield, organist John Medeski,,drummer Joey Baron and trumpeter Dave Douglas. There was a [...]
This is the first of UKJN’s two round-up reports of Love Supreme. Adam McCulloch attended the Saturday 5 . We hope to add more photos later… A slight drizzle and scudding low cloud on the South Downs breeze hastened festival [...]
In late 2023, pianist James Pearson was appointed Musician in Residence at Girton College, Cambridge. Pearson is such a whirlwind of activity, it is the kind of news that has been easy to overlook. Never knowingly un-busy, he combines the [...]
Alina Bzhezhinska, the London-based Ukrainian jazz harpist who was inspired by Alice Coltrane, and Tulshi, an Ibiza-based Scottish producer, mix engineer and DJ who specialises in various forms of house music, might seem unlikely collaborators. But in fact Bzhezhinska has [...]
These two live reviews also preview the forthcoming release of albums on the BMC label. In its 10 years of existence, Velvet Revolution, with its unusual line up of saxophone (Daniel Erdmann, the initiator), vibes (Jim Hart), violin (Theo Ceccaldi), [...]
Ray Brown — His Life and Music, by bassist, podcaster, and author Jay Sweet, paints a vivid and engaging portrait of the jazz world as experienced by a journeyman bassist who rose to become one of the most respected and [...]
