In the second of UKJazz News’ four year-end lists from a wide range of jazz people, musicians, writers, promoters name their favourite live moments of the year. You can add your own nominations in the comments section. Contributions have been [...]
Marc Ribot is a dangerous guitarist. In the first of his two sold out gigs at Cafe Oto he fashioned a virtuosic, sequence of disparate, fractured deconstructions of familiar repertoire, in an impromptu, multi-faceted journey which repeatedly stopped short of [...]
Louis Moholo Moholo’s new quartet – hand-picked musicians who have collaborated with him over the past 5 years – is an effervescent combination; dynamic to the very last fade of the very last note. At Café Oto, with an appreciative [...]
Two nights at Café Oto by master guitarist Marc Ribot’s trio featuring veteran bass virtuoso, Henry Grimes, and the sprightly Chad Taylor on drums, proved to be intense, hair-raising and joyful roller-coasters. Suffused with subversive wit, ingrained with an irreverently [...]
Guitarist Marc Ribot fits in alongside Bill Frisell and Ry Cooder in sharing a fascination with American rural and urban blues and country music, and with musics from way further afield. His exploratory projects include a voyage of discovery around [...]
Marc Ribot was at his most intense and uncompromising for his trio’s sell-out concert in the pristine Great Hall at Bishopsgate Institute. His introductory remarks put down a marker for a set over which he presided seated, head down, scrunched [...]
