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For the last couple of years, bass guitarist Ben Crosland has been promoting occasional gigs at the charming St. Stephen’s Church in Lindley, close to his Huddersfield home; on Saturday night it was the turn of John Etheridge Trio North [...]
Pianist and composer Daan Herweg delights on this tight ten-track set that fuses jazz tradition, touches of classical piano and a forward-looking approach. Herweg, a prolific figure on the Dutch and European jazz scenes as well aa a teacher at [...]
On a sunny evening, Wednesday 8 May, Immy Churchill, Louise Balkwill and Becky Alice performed a gig at Oliver’s to celebrate the music of Anita Wardell, and to raise money to help with her recovery. Link to GoFundMe below. Becky [...]
I remember seeing a documentary called ‘The Django Legacy’ on the telly back in ‘91. I recorded it on VHS and watched it over and over again. In those ‘pre-internet’ days you found inspiration wherever you could, and this short [...]
The steady, resonant, metallic tick of a cymbal; ghostly ripples from a guitar; a distant piano phrase that sounds like a dripping icicle; then softly, a swelling call from a saxophone with a dreamlike vocal quality. It’s an arresting opening [...]
I love the work of Italian, Cuba-born author Italo Calvino (1923-1985), so I was immediately drawn to a new piece of music inspired by his work. He has inspired many artists, composers, and film-makers; wrote libretti for operas by Luciano [...]
Now running for over 30 years, the Kaleidophon festival takes place at the Jazzatelier in the small town of Ulrichsberg in Upper Austria. It is an intimate but welcoming event for free improvised jazz and contemporary music. The venue itself [...]
The Terence Collie Quartet’s gig at Pizza Express in Dean Street on Saturday 4 May had attracted a substantial audience. Bearing in mind that it was 1pm on a Saturday, and on a rare warm sunny day in London, it [...]
Recorded in 2011 at a performance in Boulder. Colorado, ‘Old Main Chapel’ is a fine document of a collaboration between three musicians at the height of their powers. The cornetist and trumpeter Ron Miles – who sadly passed away in [...]
Pianist Adam Dyer‘s debut album is a winning combination of lively post-bop originals, some romantic ballads and a couple of reworked standards. With Eric Ford on drums and Jakub Cywinski on bass, he fronts a trio sensitive enough to let [...]
