Pizza Express has announced the line-up for the next Steinway 2-Piano Festival, taking place in March 2024. The unusual names for London here are LA studio veteran Don Grusin, younger brother of GRP co-founder Dave Grusin, who is appearing in [...]
American pianist and composer Joey Calderazzo alongside British bassist Orlando le Fleming (based in New York for many years, now living in the UK again) and American drummer Donald Edwards concluded an almost three week tour of Europe at PizzaExpress [...]
American drummer, composer and educator Billy Drummond made his London debut as a leader at PizzaExpress Soho last night as part of the 2023 EFG London Jazz Festival. A veteran of the New York scene mentored by the likes of [...]
Pocket Jazz is a new online jazz course created by Arizona-based trombonist and Music Savvy founder Michael Lake. It aims to deepen a musician’s understanding of some of the more complex aspects to playing jazz, providing for those who enrol [...]
As the title of pianist/arranger Hans Koller‘s latest album indicates, Word from Bird has a Charlie (‘Bird’) Parker theme to all of its tracks. The German-born, London-based pianist assembled a thirteen-piece jazz orchestra comprised of like-minded players (full list below) [...]
The great American pianist Richie Beirach has said of Moscow-born pianist Regina Litvinova: “She was already a fully developed musician when she first came to me as a student in Leipzig. Now she is my colleague and I learn a [...]
Since it was published in 1988, The New Real Book has sold over 100,000 copies, making it the best-selling legal fake book of all time. The man behind that venture, publisher and founder of Sher Music Co. Chuck Sher, has [...]
Last November, the Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra (TLJO) spent three nights celebrating the 85th birthday of composer/arranger Mike Gibbs (reviewed by Patrick Hadfield) as part of the 2022 EFG London Jazz Festival. Continuing on in a similar theme, they returned [...]
The Manchester-based Royal Northern College of Music is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. As part of the festivities, northern-based musicians Dave Hassell (drums) and Andy Scott (saxophone) have been invited to direct the big band for a night of [...]
35-year-old American bassist Michael Feinberg has been active as a leader of his own projects for most of a decade – putting out records featuring all-star players like George Garzone and Billy Hart. His latest release, Blues Variant showcases a [...]
