The Shadowlands trio, of Robin Fincker on tenor and clarinet, Lauren Kinsella as vocalist and Kit Downes on organ and piano, follows in a venerable line of similar UK trios in which the voice intertwines, and the words are enhanced [...]
Find yourself a comfortable seat and watch this riveting story. Not only does it trace the giddy highs and gut-wrenching lows of jazz musician Artie Shaw’s life but it also doubles as an examination of the uneasy stresses between an [...]
In the interview round for this album, Rachael Calladine explained that it took her many years of plying her craft as a jazz singer before she started to work at the 606 Club – where her album launch will take [...]
1980 was a comparatively quiet year for Art Pepper: his health was poor, he toured Europe. He recorded three records – Winter Moon and One September Afternoon, and Mistral with Freddie Hubbard, and also the records released as the Milcho [...]
Valentin Ceccaldi is an improvising cellist who is at the centre of the free improvisation scene in France in groups such as those led by his elder brother Theo Ceccaldi, also with the Hermia Ceccaldi Darrifourcq Trio and groups featuring [...]
Pianist and composer Steve Tromans has long been a cornerstone artist on the Birmingham jazz scene, and has also travelled widely as a musician and educator. And sitarist Jonathan Mayer – son of Indo Jazz Fusions founder John Mayer – [...]
This concert was the culmination of a week-long residency for NYC-based pianist Helen Sung in Guildhall’s Jazz Department, a week during which – so I was told by a number of those involved – she has imparted a particularly positive, [...]
Claire Cope is an interpreter of tales. The pianist’s latest compositions, inspired by female explorers and written for an eleven-piece ensemble, rise and fall across dramatic narrative arcs. One can only hear a ten-minute musical hero’s journey so many times [...]
It’s not news because everyone with an interest in jazz or design already knows: the Blue Note record label was in its prime one of the most perfectly made marriages of form and content, packaging and product ever devised, in [...]
This special celebratory evening at the Royal Academy was the convergence of two major projects coming to fruition. Firstly it was the launch event for the book ‘Song for Someone – The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler’, a biography of [...]
