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London Intercollegiate Jazz Orchestra(The Vortex, 17 September 2024. Review by Tom Hardy) Tuesday 17 September presented an exciting new venture by one of London’s most recently formed big bands, Finn Genockey’s London Intercollegiate Jazz Orchestra. The band unites the talents [...]
Artists: * Han Bennink, Ingrid Laubrock, Marta Warelis* Christophe Monniot /Didier Ithursarry* Kuhn Fu (Christoph Kühn, Tobias Delius, Frank Gratkowski, John Dikeman, Ziv Taubenfeld)* Julie Sassoon Quartet with Lothar Ohlmeier, Rudy Fischerlehner, Meinrad Kneer* Max Andrzejewski, Camila Nebbia /James Banner [...]
Be warned. If you’re the sort of fan who prefers jazz performances in-your-face bristling with high octane aggression, go elsewhere. Because, when two veteran virtuosi, Alan Barnes on a selection of reeds and David Newton on piano (combined ages totalling [...]
This debut release by the sui generis trio of Alice Zawadzki (voice, violin), Fred Thomas (piano, vielle, drums) and Misha Mullov-Abbado (double bass) is an enticing yet resolutely high-toned survey of songs from varying traditions, including the lost language of [...]
The only item lacking was a sign warning the capacity audience to fasten seat belts. Because, when Guy Barker introduced his new musical extravaganza, explaining that his magnum opus (dialogue by his chum, writer Rob Ryan) had been inspired by [...]
Sometimes it feels like the history of jazz is propelled solely by innovators and entrepreneurs, a series of formidable iconoclasts who stand like beacons whilst lesser musicians, commonly known as “great players”, emulate and accumulate. Historians often favour that kind [...]
London-based guitarist and composer Billy Marrows has a knack for choosing song names. His debut album, named for his late mum Penelope (Penny), is full of great ones, each with a story behind it. ‘Be Right Bold’, for instance, is [...]
Three recordings in 20 years for Inner Space, one of the two principal groups led by London-based trumpeter Loz Speyer, indicates a patient cultivation of their art. And the way that the group sound remains identifiable even though Speyer is [...]
It is always sheer delight to see and hear alto saxophonist Ben van Gelder and guitarist Reinier Bass. This is jazz without the brakes. Adventurous, challenging, unpredictable, the arrangements have a richness about them, and everything is played with a [...]
Seven years. It doesn’t seem likely, but it is, indeed, seven years since the Neil Cowley Trio decided to take a break, a short while after releasing Spacebound Apes. Now the trio has returned, with Entity, and it’s extremely good [...]
