Buxton International Festival is back this July, running from the 10 to 27 July, bringing with it a vibrant mix of world-class opera, intimate jazz gigs, captivating book events, and classical concerts. The first four days of the festival (10–13 [...]
Summer’s coming, the barbecue’s heating up, the people are here and it’s time for a new album from pianist, composer and producer Reuben James to get the atmosphere going. Reuben James describes this as his ‘sophomore album’ following 2023’s Champagne [...]
Alison Bentley wrote over 300 articles and reviews for LondonJazz News (*), right up to the month before her death from a long illness in September 2023. As a professional singer and singing teacher she really knew her stuff, writing [...]
The glorious waves of the music furiously swirled and crashed around me, stirring all my senses and sending my spirits soaring. I thought: “This must be what white water rafting is like.” The Double Quartet of saxophonist and composer Paul [...]
The acorn was a discussion between Jonathan Nason and John Bowman, two residents of the village of Kings Bromley, a few miles north of Lichfield in Staffordshire. The sapling was a modest jazz club which first met a year ago [...]
Peggy Harvey (widow of Eddie Harvey) and Alec Dankworth (son of Sir John Dankworth) presented the winners of the Dankworth Prizes for Jazz Composition and the Eddie Harvey Jazz Arranger of the Year Award with their prizes at a ceremony [...]
Welsh-born, Amsterdam-based saxophonist and composer Alice Leggett is touring in the UK. Her debut album ‘Birdsong’ will be released in May on ZenneZ Records. Feature by Tara Minton. “Where is home?” It’s a question all too familiar to so many [...]
It’s hard to believe that London-born saxophonist Ralph Moore has never been on tour in the UK in his own name; hats off to bassist Simon Woolf for making all of these dates happen. Moore has revisited the country of [...]
Soft Machine evolved from its roots as a pioneering 1960s psychedelic progressive band into an outstanding jazz quartet underpinned by powerful rock-solid rhythms. But from the opening moments of the current group’s concert in Lichfield, the early days of the [...]
This concert in the wonderful setting of Symphony Hall was a triumph for Xhosa Cole and his group of musicians and for the CBSO. The concert featured an opening set devoted to Monk with Xhosa leading a group with himself [...]
