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As one of the world’s premier electric bass players, Mo Foster commands the respect and admiration of his peers. Although he has excelled in sideman and session musician roles for the major part of his career, it is as bandleader [...]

Two of our most distinguished jazz musicians intertwine their musical journeys for an hour in this rediscovered live recording from 2007. The results are bewitching – chamber jazz of the highest order, which can now be enjoyed and savoured again [...]

Singer, radio show host and doer of all things jazz in West Sussex, Jenny Green has just released her second CD, Always and Forever. As fellow jazz vocalist Gill Manly states: “Beautifully produced by Claire Martin and accompanied by the [...]

12 August 2021.

Becca Wilkins, originally from Kent and based in London, is a young singer who acknowledges influences from European singers such as Leïla Martial, Lucia Cadotsch and Mirna Bogdanović. These influences were apparent at the Vortex gig, but in a context [...]

Film Forum, NYC. 6 August 2021

“The world is full of eminent musicians deserving of documentaries,” German-Canadian film-maker Brigitte Berman explained on Friday night 6 August, the 90th anniversary of the death of Leon (Bix) Beiderbecke. “But to make a documentary you need to be ready [...]

Imagine if Brahms woke up one day and had the blues, Brad Mehldau speculated about his Variations on a Melancholy Theme. This orchestral work does indeed follow in Brahms’ footsteps – it is supremely romantic and harmoniously lyrical, 35 deeply [...]

It’s usual to start reviews in the UK of Patricia Barber by expressing bafflement as to why a jazz singer of the first rank isn’t better known here. Of course, if this site was Paris Jazz News or Jazz News [...]

How to combine your love of both bebop and free jazz? UK saxophonist Alex Western-King leads a talented young band in their debut recording. “This album is a snapshot of one year of my life, documenting my growth out of [...]

Sean Gibbs hails from Edinburgh but is now London based, after having spent four very productive years on the jazz course at Birmingham Conservatoire. He was always one of the stars there, both as a trumpeter and a composer. While there, [...]

Revival Room is both the name of the group and the title of the album coming out on Efpi Records, the Manchester-based label that has acted as a kind of musicians’ collective for jazz and improvising musicians in the North West. The [...]

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