Tenor saxophonist, flautist and composer Tori Freestone won the The Ivors Composer Award for Jazz Ensemble for her composition “Birds of Paradise”. The piece features Freestone on flute/triangle, vocals by Brigitte Beraha, and piano by Alcyona Mick, and was premiered [...]
After two online/live hybrid years, the Cambridge Jazz Festival is back in full in-person mode. Musical connections are at the centre of this year’s Cambridge Jazz Festival, which returns between 10 and 27 November. Across 24 venues, from concert halls [...]
Cornish-born and London-based alto saxophonist Ronan Perrett has been an active member of London’s jazz scene for several years, both as a sideman and as leader of TwoSpeak, a jazz quartet that was a finalist at the international Jazz Juniors [...]
As a fellow proud resident of south London, I felt compelled out of a sense of geographic loyalty to check out this album by south of the river resident James Beckwith. He’s a keyboardist and composer and Long Distance is [...]
Between 12 and 21 November 2021, the EFG London Jazz Festival will be presenting almost 400 concerts – an impressive feat indeed, but how on earth will you decide what to watch? When Sam Leak wrote his first ‘Jazz Musician’s [...]
The Jazz Sanctuary is a monthly music event in South West London which brings together established and emerging artists from the UK jazz scene. Promoter/organiser Sarah Meyer talked to AJ Dehany about a club that’s now making surprising and confident [...]
The Herts Jazz Festival returns in October, running from Friday 15 to Sunday 17. Oh, to be in Bishops Stortford at festival time. Well, that’s what it feels like writing this preview piece some months ahead of the restored Herts [...]
Familiar to jazz enthusiasts for having played double bass with many of the country’s best ensembles, it’s also probably fair to say that bassist Matt Ridley must be one of the most dapper musicians in British jazz (as can be [...]
In the latest of our series in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, bassist Matt Ridley (*) writes about Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš: When I was approached to [...]
This eagerly-anticipated gig was massively over-subscribed, and it’s not difficult to see why. 23-year-old Londoner Deschanel Gordon has already scaled the heights: last year he not only won the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year but graduated from Trinity [...]
