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“How did these people get so good?” This was the question Adrian Chiles asked in a Guardian piece yesterday (*), with the title “I may not understand jazz – but I know enough to know it’s wonderful”. I wasn’t expecting [...]
In my notes for this review, one word stood out: scintillating. In Chelsea, the Summer Solstice was hot and languid, well matched by the Mediterranean delights of the Jazzato Band. I have heard Hetty Loxston sing in different venues and [...]
This was special. In the magnificently restored former St Peter’s Church, the Dutch improvising trio Under the Surface presented a multi-media event of extraordinary power and beauty. Their music is inspired by folk, jazz, classical music and the musical traditions [...]
“We should all stand up,” said Thomas Quasthoff. So we did. “And click our fingers on the two and the four of the bar.” That too. Brahms’s “Wiegenlied” Op. 49/4 had been ‘jazzed’ for us into 4/4, and became the [...]
Aaron Davis Hall, City College of New York. Most albums are more than simply the next tranche of songs by an artist, but This Rock We’re On: Imaginary Letters – a double-CD opus from Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz [...]
Royal Festival Hall. 14 June 2024. Part of 2024 Meltdown Curators of the Southbank Centre’s annual, iconic Meltdown Festival have included Grace Jones, Morrissey, David Bowie… For this year’s 29th festival the role is taken by legendary singer and musician, [...]
Festival Pavilion, Museum Green, Swansea. 14 June 2024. For the 2024 Swansea International Jazz Festival – which coincides with Sir Karl Jenkins’ 80th birthday year – Festival Director Dave Cottle and Sir Karl got together with Laurence Cottle and hatched [...]
Of course you shouldn’t do it. I know that. But because Beth Gibbons and her amazing band’s concert last Wednesday night at Utrecht’s TivoliVredenburg had been so impressive and moving, I just wanted to see her again, and as soon [...]
Sebastian attended the 16th Jazzdor Festival in Berlin. A write-up of the first show is HERE. In this second piece he picks just a few highlights and themes (*) from the remainder of the festival… Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin-Dresden, of which 2024 [...]
Writer/ photographer John Watson heard and saw Dennis Rollin’s as special guest with the Nick Dewhurst Band at the Cathedral Hotel on Friday 7 June as part of the Lichfield Jazz and Blues Festival. Photos copyright John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk John Watson [...]
