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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Peter Slavid attended the concerts on Saturday 5 October at this year’s Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music. He writes: The penultimate day of this, now well established festival saw a fine triple bill in the wonderful Literary and [...]
Bernd Zimmermann and Susanne Pohlen’s New Colours Festival is now in its third year. The promoters – who also present the monthly series FineArtJazz – are determined to show that Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr does have interesting things to offer, [...]
This was the concert as conundrum; Kit Armstrong and Michael Wollny are two very different pianists. Alfred Brendel has praised Kit Armstrong’s “understanding of the great piano works that combines freshness and subtlety, emotion and intellect”, whereas Richard Williams has [...]
What a wonderful opportunity for the Royal Academy of Music jazz students this was: a few days’ work culminating in this one-off concert with the double bass and composer legend that is Dave Holland. Now, unbelievably, 78, the evergreen maestro’s [...]
