Jazz Café POSK in Hammersmith kicked off 2025 with an evening dedicated to the compositions of Duncan Lamont, hosted by his son Duncan Lamont Jr. Duncan Lamont Sr. (1931 –2019) was a musician, a composer, a lyricist and a storyteller, [...]
For his first performance as Artist in Residence at the 2025 Brussels Jazz Festival – Flagey 2025, pianist Bram De Looze had assembled a veritable dream team. With Joey Baron on drums (De Looze has already worked with him in [...]
It was cold and wet tonight on Southend seafront, but I found a warm & welcoming Georgian lounge which resounds to live jazz from local & national musicians every week. And to my delight, the 6-piece Mandala were playing some [...]
This is a brief, highly subjective (and not always completely serious) set of personal impressions of a great festival which happens right at the beginning of the year (*) A is for audience. I can’t help wanting to start this [...]
Any programme curated by Nod Knowles will delight and surprise in equal measure, and the Bath Jazz Weekend’s 2025 edition was no exception. Performances that drew explicitly on folk traditions ran like a thick seam through the programme, intertwined with [...]
Trumpeter James Davison and Trombonist Callum Au teamed up to recreate the iconic quintet set up of Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer in their cleverly named band Quintet-à-Tête at the 606 Club on the first Saturday night of 2025. Clark [...]
Oliver Weindling reports from the Rencontres AJC, where a new cohort of Jazz Migration bands was showcased, and a cross-border initiative “Jazz With” was launched. The Annual Meeting in Paris of AJC (Association Jazz Croisé) includes two nights of performances. [...]
Oliver Weindling reports from having spent three evenings in succession at Porgy and Bess club in Vienna. He writes: An eclectic three days at Porgy and Bess in Vienna, proving how it’s a venue really at the peak of the [...]
When I reviewed the first of these shows in 2016, I wrote: “Whisper it quietly, but this could just possibly be the start of a new tradition.” Phew. Got one right. The whole event has a winning formula, it attracts [...]
The East London Community Band (ELCB) is a volunteer-run charity that gives musicians of any age, ability or instrument the chance to play music: from jazz, to early music, to classical. To celebrate their 50th anniversary they performed a multi-media [...]
