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Joni Mitchell has been famous for almost sixty years. Her early albums such as Blue, Court & Spark and Hejira soundtracked the lives of many who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s. Even though only one single, “Big Yellow [...]
Could this year’s Sarah Vaughan Centenary be the gift which keeps on giving? Zara McFarlane has drawn inspiration from it to produce what is surely the best album of her career, “Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan” (links below), so last [...]
“You think you can outlast the E Street Band?!”, Bruce Springsteen asks incredulously, some three hours and five minutes into the first of two massive shows at Wembley Stadium. “We’ve been doing this for 50 fuckin’ years!”, he bellows. Indeed, [...]
This Proms concert was dedicated to the songs on the three albums that Nick Drake recorded in his short life. It was a fitting tribute to the legacy of his music, 50 years on from his death at the age of 26, [...]
I have heard Brigitte Beraha twice in the past few weeks, and can’t help feeling that there is something special going on: if such a thing as perfect singing exists, Brigitte Beraha, on her own terms, is surely getting even [...]
Who knew? That Christian McBride and Kurt Rosenwinkel, were contemporaries and friends at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA)? “We’ve known each other for 37 years,” McBride explained. As a teenager at the school, Rosenwinkel’s main [...]
EFG LJF 2024 is taking shape – the organisers of the London Jazz Festival are putting out a series of monthly press releases during the summer with a “wave” of artists each time. The most recent, from the end of [...]
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra, Guildhall Jazz Singers, directed by Scott StromanGuildhall Jazz Percussion Ensemble, directed by Adriano Adewale & Ines LoubetSilk Street Concert Hall. 28 June 2024 “To celebrate four decades of jazz at Guildhall is to celebrate Scott Stroman”, said [...]
In my notes for this review, one word stood out: scintillating. In Chelsea, the Summer Solstice was hot and languid, well matched by the Mediterranean delights of the Jazzato Band. I have heard Hetty Loxston sing in different venues and [...]
Oliver Weindling informs us of a forthcoming event: “A GREAT DAY IN DALSTON, CALLING ALL MUSICIANS ON SUNDAY 30th JUNE AT 4.30 PM, WE’RE DOING A PHOTO OF AS MANY OF YOU AS POSSIBLE IN GILLETT SQUARE OUTSIDE THE VORTEX. [...]
