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BOP Jazz Theatre Company will present Jazz Conversations, “a double bill of soulful jazz dance and live jazz music,” at The Place, London, on 20 and 21 September. The programme combines two of BOP Jazz Theatre Company’s best-loved jazz dance [...]
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 [...]
Alto saxophonist Sam Braysher has a liking for the less familiar work of the American Songbook composers, a body of music that’s seldom performed in the twenty-first century and rarely heard played by jazz musicians. This doesn’t mean that it [...]
Zara McFarlane – Sweet Whispers. Celebrating Sarah Vaughan(Eternal Source of Light ESOL004LP. Album review by Bruce Lindsay) This year marks the centenary of Sarah Vaughan’s birth, on 27 March 1924 to be precise, so it’s no surprise to see the [...]
“We spend a lot of time as improvisers trying to be highly polished, but really a lot of the interesting music happens when things don’t work out the way you expect.” Saxophonist/composer Sam Norris’s debut album Small Things Evolved Slowly [...]
Back in the 1970s, around five years after they started performing, a group of young siblings from Aberdeen, Mississippi, known as the Staples Jr Singers despite being unrelated to the older and more famous Staples family, released their first album, [...]
