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A friend of a friend, who has very little English, perfectly summed up this headline performance in the Cambridge Jazz festival thus : “He is a wizard”. With the Amika String quartet to his right and the three other members [...]
Bringing together the colossal talents of pianist Brad Mehldau, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner and guitarist Peter Bernstein with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Bill Stewart – MTB is the reconvening of a group of jazz greats from the Criss Cross [...]
After successfully pivoting away from the saxophone and launching a new phase of his career with a bag of full of flutes and an exploratory and spiritual new sound, Shabaka is back with another albeit shorter helping of meditative tracks. [...]
The current, first season of jazz at the Drawing Room After Dark in Brown’s Hotel is slipping away fast. The last night of Week 12 is on Thursday 19 December, featuring Art Themen. That means there are just six more [...]
The Jazzdor festival itself has become a major “brand” for some of the exciting, and indeed European, jazz. It has built from the foundation of its annual festival in Strasbourg, which started in 1986, also to include an annual festival [...]
It has been six months since I saw Shabaka at Amsterdam’s Bimhuis. That was just a month after the release of his first solo album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, which turned out to be completely different from anything [...]
The Horsebridge Arts Centre is rapidly establishing itself as an exciting jazz venue in North Kent, bringing top artists to its fine performance space to further enhance its vibrant arts programme. Its monthly ‘Jazz at the Horsebridge’ series, in collaboration [...]
Brigitte Beraha’s Lucid Dreamers took the audience of Green Note to a vivid world of imagination with a myriad of evocative musical shapes and colours. It was a dreamland that lives up to their name. Beraha’s compositions are heavily charged [...]
Lavery are a painterly eight-piece from Dublin, freshly formed in 2023, with a single What I Want and the a three- track EP Jade Garden behind them. Their confident EFG London Jazz Festival debut at the Bull’s Head, Barnes, was [...]
‘I have a two-track mind: one is about feeling, and one is about technique. After 50 years of blowing the horn on stage, I’ll take the feeling over the technical part every time ….’ Saxophonist David Murray, with his unparalleled [...]
