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What a great little club: fabulous sound and a wonderfully attentive listening audience. Zig Zag is in Friedenau, a residential area about 5km south-west of Berlin’s other top club, the A-Trane which is just by the Ku-Damm and much more [...]
Who dares say yes to playing in Gareth Lockrane’s band? Just to be asked is probably one of the biggest compliments that a musician can receive in British jazz. Only our very best can physically reproduce Lockrane’s monstrous repertoire live, [...]
Joe Lovano’s work with Marilyn Crispell and Carmen Castaldi has been one of his main creative outlets now since 2018, with a trio of lauded albums on ECM showing three masters deepening their interaction. While Crispell brings capacious piano technique [...]
The Hague’s Rewire festival is a trusted bastion of the robustly contemporary that sells out on tickets without selling out on credibility. In its thirteenth edition over three days in twenty venues, headliners included Autechre, Oneohtrix Point Never, SUNN O))), [...]
This was so much more than a concert. It was a true celebration of the life and work of the great Bobby Wellins, with friends and family in attendance. The audience also included bassist Adrian Kendon (from Bobby’s Quartet) and [...]
“What should a modern day jazz song look like?” was the conundrum Kazuo Ishiguro had to wrestle when Stacey Kent first asked him to pen some original lyrics. The genial Nobel and Booker laureate confessed his initial trepidation as he [...]
Here’s a surprise: a band based in Berlin performing a programme based mainly on the poetry of Wilfred Owen at a club in Vienna… But perhaps no more surprising than the fact that the instigator of a recent Netflix film [...]
REVIEWS OF: Bergamo, located some 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Milan, is a beautiful city for a jazz festival. Or rather cities plural, as the medieval and fortified Città Alta (‘upper city’) located on a hill is very different [...]
It was a minute or two before the instantly recognisable sound of Andy Sheppard’s tenor drifted across the stage at the start of the gig on the last day of the Bristol Jazz Festival. There was an almost audible collective [...]
Eleonora Claps. You beauty! This Italian-born woman, mother and fabulous musical artist absolutely delighted a warm and plentiful audience at Jazz Cafe POSK. On a night of originality, expert musicality and diversity, she lit up the stage, pouring all of her talent and [...]
