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The jacket which sax player Nathaniel Facey wore at last week’s album launch for Empirical’s new album Wonder is the Beginning at a packed World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens was a metaphor for the music that followed: colourful, vivid, creative, and dry clean [...]
This dynamic album introduces vocalist Emily Masser as a new star of British jazz. Her performances are spot-on, the band is tight, the mood is swinging and all is set for a bright future for us all. Clark Tracey has [...]
The colourful abstractions of the Alex Hitchcock Dream Band mesmerised a sold out PizzaExpress on the sole UK date on their Spring tour. English saxophonist, bandleader and Ivor-Novello nominated composer Alex Hitchcock has a growing international reputation. The band had [...]
One of the most creative and enjoyable regular events on the London jazz calendar, Moment’s Notice is an evening of improvised music performed in front of a live audience at AMP Studios in Peckham. Founded by photographer and author George [...]
“Whatever you’re doing, it ain’t working…” Gabriella Di Laccio, founder of the Donne Foundation, spoke at the opening of Late Night Jazz at the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room, and recalled this comment, made six years ago by a male [...]
Unless you’re a double bass player yourself, the idea of an hour-long duet for two big fiddles might seem less of a treat than a threat of random low-end grumbling. But that’s before you know about Christian McBride and Edgar [...]
Recorded in 1971 at a benefit for the Integral Yoga Institute and now released in full for the first time, The Carnegie Hall Concert is both an historically important document and an eminently listenable recording full of insistent grooves, remarkably [...]
Saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes (pronounced ‘clues’) is principally a jazz musician, but her music often dances in the liminal space between classical and jazz. Her debut album Tangent (2010) featured her compositions for full orchestra, sextet, and guests including [...]
Saxophonist, composer and producer Steve Dyer has been an important presence on the South African scene since returning to the country in the 1990s. He brought influences from time spent in Botswana and then Zimbabwe, where he lived in anti-Apartheid [...]
On International Women’s Day 8 March 2024, British soul, jazz and R&B singer Sarah Jane Morris launched her new album The Sisterhood. It is her tribute to ten iconic women singers and songwriters, who have had a massive influence on [...]
