A short handful of months on from the triumphant release of its predecessor (*link to review below), keyboardist, producer and bandleader Joe Armon-Jones drops All the Quiet (Part II). With this second instalment, he completes his most ambitious solo project [...]
Berlin-based double bassist, composer and bandleader Haggai Cohen-Milo – bassist in the Omer Klein Trio – releases his ambitious new album Gravitations on 13 June. Known for his genre-defying approach, he presents a set of new pieces that re-imagine great [...]
This June, the Teddington Riverside Jazz Festival will make its debut. It will do exactly what it says on the tin: bring a stellar line-up packed with emerging talent and established jazz artists to the Lensbury Club’s lawns, a wonderful [...]
From playing keys with the all-conquering afrobeat inflected London party band that is Ezra Collective, to being a regular collaborator of Nubya Garcia and others, Joe Armon-Jones has become an inescapable presence in UK jazz and for good reason too. [...]
Award-winning London-based guitarist Billy Marrows releases The Penelope Album Live via Discus Music on 28 March. He will set out on a spring tour to mark the occasion, celebrate his work and debut new compositions. Marrows, who has become a [...]
One of the most in demand jazz guitarists on the UK scene today, Nick Costley-White is gearing up to release his third album Poncha (Ubuntu Music), which will be celebrated with a not-to-be-missed live show at the intimate World Heart [...]
With What Happened There, legends of Japanese avant-garde music Keiji Haino and Natsuki Tamura come together for a wild set of jagged and intriguing improvised music that is a thrilling journey into the minds and approaches of two left-field virtuosos. [...]
Nordsnø Ensemble are an intriguing proposition. An award-winning Octet based in Germany – they fuse contemporary jazz with the influence of Scandinavian folkloric tradition. On this, their third full-length album, they team up with British pianist and organist Kit Downes, [...]
With their vibrant and versatile take on piano driven contemporary jazz, the Ilario Ferrari Trio has been wowing audiences and critics alike with the lively compositions taken from their latest album Above The Clouds – released by Elsden Music. On [...]
Latvian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Reinis Jaunais is a restless wanderer who has taken his dextrous acoustic guitar-playing all over Europe, across Asia and to Australia and beyond. He’s a musical magpie, who takes in a myriad of influences from his [...]
