For this, the third and last of our year-end lists, UKJN contributors and friends remember their favourite recordings of 2018. Tom Barford – Bloomer (Edition). Before this record was released, saxophonist Tom Barford told me to stop worrying about how [...]
For this, the second of our three year-end lists, UKJN contributors and friends remember their best gigs of 2018. Natacha Atlas, St George’s Bristol. A car crash on the M4 meant no sound check, no rehearsal time – but one [...]
The first of our three annual lists consists of nominations by UKJN writers and other friends in the industry for musician or band of the year: Iain Ballamy Quartet. A very personal choice, unrecorded (so far), sporadically gigging, a regular [...]
With around forty single-gig reviews of the EFG London Jazz Festival this year, UKJazz News will again have provided more coverage of the festival than any other outlet – by a considerable margin. And yet it is clear that the [...]
