Nel Begley is a British vocalist, composer and teacher. She has performed across the UK and Europe with ensembles Rafe’s Dilemma, London Vocal Project and The After Hours, highlights include Pizza Express, EFG London Jazz Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival, an [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and drummer, composer, and educator Douglas Marriner. Marriner appeared as Johnny Cash’s drummer, W.S. Holland, in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, which was released in the UK on [...]
Ben Wittman is an American drummer and producer who has performed and recorded with an eclectic roster including Sting, Paul Simon, Paula Cole, and Don Byron. He has produced records for New York Voices, and engineered music by säje and [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and trumpeters Nick Smart and John Daversa. The pair produced Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores, a Royal Academy of Music- and Frost School of Music-led project dubbed Kenny [...]
Katie Thiroux is an American bassist and vocalist. She was an active member of the Larry Fuller Trio and has been heard with, among others, Justin Kauflin, Geri Allen, Helen Sung, Terrell Stafford, Terri Lyne Carrington, Lewis Nash and Patti [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and baritone saxophonist, composer, and arranger Ryan Middagh. Tenor Madness, his new album with the Ryan Middagh Orchestra, will be released 10 January via Ear Up Records. The album features [...]
Alto saxophonist Will Vinson hails from England but established a great many of his musical collaborations while living in New York City. He has appeared and/or recorded with Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ari Hoenig, Jonathan Kreisberg, Marcus Gilmore, Chris Potter, [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with pianist and composer Renee Rosnes. Her latest album, Crossing Paths, was released 6 December via Smoke Sessions Records. Crossing Paths features saxophonist Chris Potter, trombonist Steve Davis, bassist John Patitucci, and [...]
Cat Toren is a pianist, improviser and composer, originally from North Vancouver, Canada. A JUNO Award-winner and Western Canadian Music Award-winner, she has performed throughout North America and been commissioned by the Cassatt String Quartet and the nonet, Orkestra Futura. [...]
Full Cream – an album between Greg Ward on alto saxophone and Moog; Leo Genovese on Hammond B-3, piano, and synths; Matthew Stevens on guitar and electric bass; and Ziv Ravitz on drums – was released 1 November via Ward’s [...]
Harry Mitchell is an Australian pianist and composer. He was named Young Australian Jazz Musician of the Year at the 2017 Australian Bell Jazz Awards and the following year he won the West Australian Music (WAM) award for Best Pianist. [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s recap of pianist, composer, and conductor Arturo O’Farrill’s performance entitled Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley, which took place on 14 December at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn. O’Farrill was joined by his Afro [...]
Carolin Pook is a German-born violinist, composer, improviser, conductor & drummer from Brooklyn/New York. She creates and conducts music that is tailored to the featured performers and part improvised, part written, while melting those in a seamless way into one [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with pianist, composer, and arranger Bill O’Connell. His new album, Touch – to be released 17 January via Jojo Records – features bassist Santi Debriano and drummer Billy Hart. Links to purchase [...]
Florian Hoefner was born and raised in Germany, and now lives in Canada. A JUNO Award-winner, he has performed at festivals including Jazz Baltica, ACACIA Jazz Festival, Jazz in Situ in Ecuador and Tremplin Jazz d’Avignon, where his group was [...]
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 [...]
