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The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with singer April May Webb, winner of the 13th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. The so-called SASSY Awards took place on 24 November, and Webb won out against Syndee Winters [...]
Multi-instrumentalist Eki Shola’s music transcends genre, as she seamlessly draws from jazz, electronica, and soul music to create a sonic landscape all her own. Born in London to Jamaican parents, Eki was raised in a musical family. She emigrated to [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade. Three Visitors – their new album alongside pianist Edward Simon, featuring guests Becca Stevens, Chris Potter, Jana Dagdagan and Rogério Boccato – was released [...]
Robin Phillips is a singer, pianist, bandleader, presenter, producer, and educator. After quitting a post-graduate job in PR in 2006, he started to build a full-time career in music, one gig at a time, moving to London before relocating to [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator Isaiah Collier. Collier’s second album of 2024, The World is On Fire, was released on 18 October. Like its immediate predecessor, The Almighty, The World is [...]
Naomi Moon Siegel is an American trombonist, improviser, composer, and educator. Her original musical vocabulary draws on the richness of a variety of global musical traditions and the sonorities of the natural world. Naomi explores the trombone as a vehicle [...]
In the latest of our series where musicians consider their idols or formative influences, composer Philip Clemo picks music by Anouar Brahem that has left its mark on him: Anouar Brahem was born in the Medina of Tunis, Tunisia in [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with multi-Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer Brian Lynch. His new album, 7x7by7 – featuring tenor saxophonist Craig Handy, guitarist Alex Wintz, pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Boris Kozlov, drummer Kyle Swan, and percussionist Murph [...]
Glenn Zaleski is a New York-based pianist originally from Boylston, MA. He has made a name for himself playing with the likes of Ravi Coltrane, Cécile McLorin Salvant, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Yotam Silberstein, Lage Lund, Ari Hoenig, and many [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel. His new live album, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard, released 4 October via Edition Records, features pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and [...]
Sue Rynhart is an Irish vocalist and acoustic guitarist who has sung with international Jazz artists, Rick Peckham, Tom Arthurs and Florian Ross. She has premiered works by many of the composers from the Irish Composers Collective & the Contemporary [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with trumpeter, composer, and arranger David Weiss. His sextet – consisting of alto saxophonist Myron Walden, tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover, pianist David Bryant, bassist Eric Wheeler, and drummer E.J. Strickland – released [...]
Ewout Pierreux is a Belgian pianist who has worked with musicians including Ron Van Rossum, Bert Joris, Frank Vaganée, and Dré Pallemaerts. His current collaborations are with the South African/Belgian vocalist Tutu Puoane, Rebirth::Collective, Jelle Van Giel’s ‘Close Distance’, Marjan [...]
Germana Stella La Sorsa is an Italian London-based singer. She has performed at venues including Ronnie Scott’s and the Vortex Jazz Club, and at jazz festivals like Lebanon’s Al Bustan International Festival and the Ceglie Jazz Open Festival in Italy. [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with saxophonist and composer Caroline Davis. Her new album, Portals, Volume 2 : Returning – released 20 September via Intakt Records – features her quintet in trumpeter Marquis Hill, pianist Julian Shore, [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with alto saxophonist, composer, and arranger Alden Hellmuth. Her new album, Good Intentions, featuring guitarist Lucas Kadish, trumpeter Josh Evans, bassist Kanoa Mendenhall, and drummer Timothy Angulo, was released 6 September via [...]
Sunny Jain’s music is a celebration of cultural diaspora, taking inspiration from the scores of Bollywood classics and Spaghetti Westerns, Indian folk traditions, and improvisation. The result? A heady fusion of jazz, rock, and sheer, unbridled energy. A drummer and [...]
Hudson Hall almost wasn’t here. The arts organisation and venue is housed at the historic Hudson Opera House, constructed in 1855, initially as Hudson’s city hall. In 1975, the last cement plant shipped out of town and neglect staked its [...]
Sarah Weller is the Head of Music at Ronnie Scott’s Club in London.There are few positions in the UK music industry to equal the authority of her position at one of the leading jazz clubs of Europe. With a multi-faceted [...]
I was probably only a toddler when I first heard Nelson Riddle. My Grandfather would have Sinatra/Fitzgerald records playing all the time, but it wasn’t until my late teens that I knew him by name. My housemate at music college [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Ropeadope’s CEO, Louis Marks, and president, Fabian Brown. The pair are ringing in the anniversary of this multifarious label with a scrolling multimedia documentary, a series of panel discussions, [...]
For more than two decades pianist Liam Noble has been a key figure on the vibrant British Jazz scene, both as a sideman and leader. He has collaborated with musicians including Dave Liebman, Tim Berne, Tom Herbert and Seb Rochford. [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and producer Simon Moullier. His new album Elements of Light, released 20 September, features his quartet – pianist Lex Korten, bassist Rick Rosato, and drummer Jongkuk “JK” Kim [...]
Cat Henry is a British-American creative producer specializing in the visioning and planning of concerts, tours, and public programs. Curator of jazz programs for Hudson Hall, she previously curated concerts for MoMA Summergarden: New Music for New York, from 2005-2015, [...]
