“One of the most unique adventures that I’ve made in the jazz world,” says Gwilym Simcock of his new trio. The Wiltshire Music Centre describes this concert – the same line-up is also appearing at Kings Place – as follows: [...]
St George’s Bristol is a 200 year-old Church but a posh new addition gives us the Glass Room, an excellent smaller space to enjoy this rip-roaring five-piece band up close. It was a stirring homecoming gig for Out Front’s instigator, [...]
Coming up to six o’clock on Friday evening, there’s a pleasant sea breeze offsetting hot sunshine outside the main marquee, Alan Barnes’ alto is tearing into Art Pepper’s Straight Life to close his festival opening set, and all’s right with [...]
Ten years after its first edition, the revival of something like a full programme for Bristol’s jazz festival this year feels like a small miracle. In the last five years the organisers have contended with being almost snowed off (2018), [...]
A programme showcasing the breadth of the British jazz scene in a beautiful location awaits audiences at Swanage Jazz Festival on the weekend of 7 to 9 July. Situated on Dorset’s stunning Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site on the [...]
As he looks forward to this year’s Swanage Jazz Festival, and announces the programme, Festival Chair Paul Kelly writes: Swanage Jazz Festival has the most stunning setting with the Mowlem Theatre sited at the water’s edge and the lovely greenfield [...]
A stone’s throw from the University of Bristol’s Student Union building, it’s easy to miss the steps down to the entrance of Bristol Music Club, current home of Fringe Jazz. The weekly jazz gig has been defying gravity for 10 [...]
A Thursday at the end of summer, and Summer, had an elegiac air, a hymn-like harmony, alluring, unexpected shifts in the progression and moments of stillness that make the listener catch their breath. Add a layer of breathy, ruminating sax [...]
‘You can get up and dance now’ said Joe Stilgoe, and the field in front of him flowered with wriggling hips, swirling swing dancers dotted amongst them as the trio notched Putting On The Ritz up a gear. Compère for [...]
Angel Bat Dawid + Bendik Giske + Ligeti Quartet + Shirley Pegna/Dominic Lash/Angharad Davies + Kelly Jayne Jones + Sarah Davachi Gert lush Bristol got gert lively this week with a broad-minded programme of challenging and exciting music, sound and [...]
