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“You think you can outlast the E Street Band?!”, Bruce Springsteen asks incredulously, some three hours and five minutes into the first of two massive shows at Wembley Stadium. “We’ve been doing this for 50 fuckin’ years!”, he bellows. Indeed, [...]
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival: Playtime with Byron Wallen, Soweto Kinch Trio, Matthew Kilner Quartet, Laura Jurd Quintet, Norman Willmore Sextet, Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio It’s the middle of July, and the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival comes around again: [...]
This Proms concert was dedicated to the songs on the three albums that Nick Drake recorded in his short life. It was a fitting tribute to the legacy of his music, 50 years on from his death at the age of 26, [...]
First night in Buxton, and a double bill of Madeline Bell and Judi Jackson. Having interviewed Judi Jackson prior to the Festival (link below), I could already visualise what to expect: barefoot in the likeness of her idol Nina Simone, [...]
I have heard Brigitte Beraha twice in the past few weeks, and can’t help feeling that there is something special going on: if such a thing as perfect singing exists, Brigitte Beraha, on her own terms, is surely getting even [...]
After Ralf Dombrowski’s report of the opening weekend of Suedtirol Festival 2024, Oliver Weindling reports on its closing days Oliver Weindling writes: Suedtirol Festival’s change of artistic directors, from Klaus Widmann, to the present triumvirate of Max von Prest, Roberto [...]
Two years ago, the Fergus McCreadie Octet was the outstanding gig of the 2022 Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival. So when they commissioned new work from McCreadie for this year’s festival, expectations were running high. McCreadie and the octet didn’t [...]
Artists/bands covered: Live Nation’s NN North Sea Jazz Festival (NSJ) had noticeably fewer jazz ‘superstars’ on offer this year. Nevertheless, the continued embarrassment of riches, provided plenty of highlights to impress both casual NSJ ‘newbies’ and festival old hands alike. [...]
Who knew? That Christian McBride and Kurt Rosenwinkel, were contemporaries and friends at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA)? “We’ve known each other for 37 years,” McBride explained. As a teenager at the school, Rosenwinkel’s main [...]
Listening to the Shadows and Light live album again last night, I realised how easy it is to forget the sheer quality of musicianship on display in some of our favourite records. As an avid Joni Mitchell fan, I was [...]
