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I found myself first in the queue for this gig at seven o’clock sharp when the doors opened, meaning a near two-hour wait until the music started…. but it was entirely worth it. The word supergroup is often tossed around [...]
The jacket which sax player Nathaniel Facey wore at last week’s album launch for Empirical’s new album Wonder is the Beginning at a packed World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens was a metaphor for the music that followed: colourful, vivid, creative, and dry clean [...]
The colourful abstractions of the Alex Hitchcock Dream Band mesmerised a sold out PizzaExpress on the sole UK date on their Spring tour. English saxophonist, bandleader and Ivor-Novello nominated composer Alex Hitchcock has a growing international reputation. The band had [...]
“Whatever you’re doing, it ain’t working…” Gabriella Di Laccio, founder of the Donne Foundation, spoke at the opening of Late Night Jazz at the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room, and recalled this comment, made six years ago by a male [...]
Musicians are becoming increasingly mobile. More and more, they are no longer based where they were born but move for long periods to other cities and cultures, perhaps reflecting their curiosity to sample new influences and then, like smart chefs, [...]
Journey To Where (Stoney Lane Records) is a beautiful and thoughtful duo album on which Trish Clowes plays a mixture of jazz and classical repertoire with pianist Ross Stanley. This is music of great sensitivity, strength and also charm. Clowes’ [...]
American tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi is considered to be one of the great saxophonists of the post-Coltrane generation, as well as one of the most distinguished educators in modern jazz. Each year, he embarks on a short tour of the [...]
Scotland’s new wave of jazz talent blasted its way to the fore in this energetic and stylish evening of new music, great arrangements and committed performances. The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO) has been delighting audiences for nearly thirty years, [...]
