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On Fragments, German double bassist and composer Tabea Kind (b.1999) serves up an intoxicating and immersive debut, rich in emotion and melody and imbued with a sense of wandering exploration. Tabea Kind originally hails from Karlsruhe in Germany. Her teachers [...]
Like A Jazz Machine cleverly mixes higher profile acts with music of some of the leading and up-and-coming local bands in a five-day festival (I attended days 3 and 4). It takes place in a modern arts complex in Dudelange, [...]
There are four musicians in The Billy Mohler Quartet. Yet after leaving their gig at Rizzoli bookstore on Sunday 19 May, I couldn’t help feeling that the name was a little misleading; their sound and energy felt more like a [...]
Gary Husband is perhaps best known for his work as a sideman, not least in various line ups of John McLaughlin’s 4th Dimension. But he’s also released several records of piano music, leading trios and, more rarely, as a solo [...]
NikNak (Nicole Raymond) has been turning heads for a few years with her distinctive approach to electronic music and turntablism. On this, her fourth album, she weaves an Afro-futurist opus from a multitude of influences. Imbued with her interests in [...]
California-born alto saxophonist John O’Gallagher relocated to Portugal in 2021, after 25 years of playing in New York, and a subsequent shorter period of playing, teaching and researching into Coltrane’s improvisational structures in Birmingham. He has clearly found a niche [...]
A sell-out crowd at Café OTO on Friday night witnessed what to my mind is one of the finest and most moving concerts I’ve seen in many a year. Nat Birchall is a saxophonist and composer much better known in [...]
There was an almost tangible air of excitement before last night’s concert by the Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra at the Royal Northern College of Music as part of the 29th Manchester Jazz Festival. The concert had originally been scheduled to [...]
“Anyone who thinks they’ve got music all figured out – well, they’ve got a problem,” said guitar master Bill Frisell to a packed room of students at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. “I always feel I’m at the beginning. Every time.” [...]
For about five seconds I was thinking I might not like this record. There’s a moment, as the first track lurches into gear, where no one seems to be together. Then Frank Butler cracks the snare, and everyone’s suddenly brought [...]
