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Plexus: (Carlotta Armbruster and Jonas Heck) / Unionen (Petter Eldh, Gard Nilssen, Per Texas Johansson, Ståle Storløkken) This was my third and last concert during Cologne Jazz Week, so I’m not attempting to do justice to the breadth of the [...]
The following is a review of revered bassist Dave Holland’s debut as a leader at Smoke Jazz Club in New York City. His “New Quartet” featured alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, pianist Kris Davis, and drummer Nasheet Waits. “They’re all musicians [...]
John Arnett writes: Taking place over four days in one of the cinemas of the very congenial Ambleside institution that is Zeffirellis, this four day festival was the seventh, annually, in what has proved to be a highly successful and [...]
Tom Step reports from Jazz in the Park. 30 August- 1 September 2024, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Artists: DAOUD, Qinta Spartă and Norzeatic, Oreglo, Jazzbois, Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, Isfar Sarabski, Cymande, Orchestra Baobab, Tigran Hamasyan Trio, Avishai Cohen Trio, Roni Kaspi [...]
At this point in his career, Oxford-born pianist, organist and composer Alexander Hawkins really needs little introduction. A virtuosic improviser who can draw on seemingly infinite musical frame of reference, each of his half dozen or so recordings for the [...]
Gaume Jazz Festival celebrated its 40th edition from 9 to 11 August. As with so many other festivals, this festival has been run from the beginning by one person, Jean-Pierre Bissot, who has carefully nurtured and adapted the programme. It [...]
Bakunawa is an album by three important players on the creative New York scene: drummer Andrew Barker, bassist William Parker and saxophonist Jon Irabagon. All three have performed together in different configurations, but this is their first album as a [...]
This is the debut release for a remarkable document of a remarkable band, complete with cover art by the great drummer and jazz iconoclast Tony Oxley, who died last last year aged 85. It was recorded at the Ruhr Jazz [...]
This new album provides a feast of musical styles and influences: fiesta is just the word that it evokes. My memory has grown uncertain, but I think I first heard Jennifer Moore (Ayala) as a teenager, in Cambridge. I could [...]
Second of three evenings at Cologne Jazz Week I started trying to remember good quotes about lightness, and there was a reason. W.B.Yeats wrote “tread softly because you tread on my dreams ” and there’s a Sonny Rollins liner note where [...]
