Sudanese-Italian singer Amira Kheir releases Black Diamonds – her fourth full length record and her most personal statement to date. It’s a powerful ode to her Sudanese heritage, building on the unique blend of musical styles that she has been [...]
For Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño and Friends at TreePeople, the musicians gathered at ‘TreePeople’ – a longstanding conservation project in LA, to create a heady and intoxicating album at a listening party in front of a live audience. The [...]
London band Aspyrian, who have been turning heads with their wildly inventive take on the jazz-trio format, are getting set to release Live at the Glad Jazz Festival, their first recorded document of one of their incendiary gigs. Dropping on [...]
Hailing from Denmark, atmospheric jazz duo Bremer McCoy have been growing a formidable following over the course of several albums, with their intoxicating blend of upright bass, keys, synth and effects. This September, the band comprised of Jonathan Bremer and [...]
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 [...]
