Album titles can be anything from poetic to enigmatic to downright baffling, but Chris Sansom‘s October release Unfinished Business gets straight to the point. It’s the long-postponed completion of a fascinating musical adventure, abandoned 50 years ago and brought back [...]
The early jazz music of legendary composer Sir Karl Jenkins will feature at this year’s Swansea International Jazz Festival as part of his 80th birthday year celebrations. Sir Karl, who is also Patron of the Festival, has, together with bassist [...]
“A really nice, cohesive feeling; Dave [Whitford] and Tim [Giles] are a great rhythm section,” says pianist Richard Fairhurst. Fairhurst’s new trio album ‘Inside Out’ is released by Ubuntu Music on 14 June. The trio tours the UK from June, [...]
Reeds player and composer Tim Garland‘s career has spanned 33 years, and his creativity shows no sign of letting up. Three years in the making, his newest album Moment of Departure will be released via Ubuntu records on 3 May, [...]
French horn player Jim Rattigan’s new release, the 3-CD box set “Duos” – also featuring pianists Ivo Neame and Hans Koller, and guitarist Nick Costley-White – will be released on 20 October and launched at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean [...]
“You choose the songs you love doing… I love the whole spectrum, swing, ballads, bossa nova, everything.” says Netherlands-born singer Wilma Baan. Her new album has a fascinating backstory. Wilma Baan, the Netherlands-born jazz singer, is in the prime of [...]
Fraser Smith says of bebop music: “I just love listening to that style, and playing with people who love it too. And I think the more you get into it, the more you learn about how to make those wonderful [...]
The Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra has five tour dates from 7 to 12 February. The 19-piece orchestra will be taking “Tales from the Jacquard” and other pieces to Birmingham, Southampton, Sheffield, Derby and London. After a quarter-century at the forefront [...]
Ben Crosland has a new album, Songs of Solace and Reflection, showing his essence as “an unaffectedly lyrical composer of direct and evocative melodies that draw in the uninitiated and the jazz cognoscenti alike.” Plenty of turning points in the [...]
