This is a hugely enjoyable album from three outstanding musicians. Drummer Carl Allen calls on double bassist Christian McBride and saxophonist Chris Potter to help him make an album that he would most like to hear as a listener. This [...]
Samara Joy’s eponymous first album (Whirlwind, 2021) was one of the most impressive debuts by an artist that I’ve ever heard. It had everything – Joy’s incredible voice, the extraordinary guitarist Pasquale Grasso, the swinging rhythm section of double bassist [...]
It’s been almost two years since I wrote about Jasmine Myra’s beautiful debut album Horizons (LINK TO REVIEW), which was one of the best UK jazz releases of 2022. Now the composer, alto saxophonist and flautist releases Rising, her second [...]
One of the most creative and enjoyable regular events on the London jazz calendar, Moment’s Notice is an evening of improvised music performed in front of a live audience at AMP Studios in Peckham. Founded by photographer and author George [...]
In last week’s London Jazz News, Sebastian Scotney spoke with guitarist John Etheridge about this album (link below), Without recapping too much, this is the first time that the Blue Spirits lineup of Etheridge, organist Pete Whittaker and drummer George [...]
It’s twenty years since the pianist and composer Art Hirahara moved to New York City from the Bay Area, and in that time he’s become highly respected as a leader, sideman and educator. This is Hirahara’s ninth album for Posi-Tone [...]
Christian McBride and New Jawn’s first set (of four) over a two-night stand at Ronnie Scott’s on Monday saw the quartet unexpectedly hit the stage as a trio. Double bassist McBride, tenor saxophonist Marcus Strickland and drummer Nasheet Waits had [...]
Arba is the first new album in five years from the Jaffa-raised trumpeter Itamar Borochov. He’s been a New York City resident since 2007 when he enrolled at The New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music (who have a deep [...]
Kai Hoffman, East Kent’s answer to George Wein, runs a great little jazz festival in Herne Bay which took place over this past weekend. I hopped across from Deal and caught much of Sunday’s music which was taking place at [...]
It’s been a year since Ben Sidran last played at Ronnie Scott’s, and following a rousing introduction from the club’s Paul Pace the packed house enthusiastically welcomed Sidran and his quartet to the bandstand featuring son Leo Sidran on drums, [...]
