For years Peter Eldridge has remained at the forefront of both the singer-songwriter and jazz realms as a vocalist, pianist, composer, and arranger. Peter was head of the Manhattan School of Music’s jazz voice department for eighteen years and is [...]
Chamber recordings always reward my deepest attention, regardless of their style. Even more so when they involve musicians I admire. So it is with Flint, created by double bassist Joëlle Léandre and pianist Andrzej Karałow. These artists are from different [...]
Multi-award-winning trumpeter/bandleader Henry Spencer’s album The Defector received an abundance of critical praise around its release in September 2023. Featuring fellow stalwarts of the British jazz scene Ant Law (guitar), Matt Robinson (keyboards), Andrew Robb (bass) and Dave Ingamells (drums) – [...]
Jazzdor, based in Strasbourg, fosters a spirit of collaboration and co-operation across national boundaries. In addition to its annual ‘home’ festival, it added Berlin more than 15 years ago. The Budapest festival is a relatively new addition, run in partnership [...]
American clarinettist Sam Sadigursky has released 11 acclaimed albums as a leader (New Amsterdam Records, Brooklyn Jazz Underground, and Adhyâropa Records), and appears on over 60 albums as a side musician, including on numerous Grammy nominees and winners, most recently [...]
Amina Claudine Myers is one of those rare musicians where the music of the blues, gospel and jazz stretching out at its most adventurous is in the blood, and this came over no better than in her solo live performance [...]
One of the great early artistic successes of the ECM catalogue and a foundational text for contemporary solo jazz piano, Chick Corea’s ‘Piano Improvisations Vol 1’ (and come to that, Vol 2, which hasn’t been added to this Luminessence vinyl [...]
Kinan Azmeh is a Syrian-born, Brooklyn-based clarinetist and composer who has gained international recognition for his distinctive voice across diverse musical genres. He brings his music to all corners of the world as a soloist and commissioned composer with leading [...]
The songs on Can’t Lose My (Soul) have been described as “disco soul,” but it’s so much more: gospel is at the heart of the lyrics and vocals; disco, funk and blues inspire the music; soul is at the heart [...]
Following two years of solo touring, French-Israeli pianist, composer, and author Yaron Herman is set to release a new album on Naïve Records called Radio Paradise. It is a collaboration with some of Europe’s finest improvising performers: Ziv Ravitz, his [...]
