Canadian guitarist Bill Coon has produced a marvellous solo album and the title perfectly sums up this recording. It’s a disc containing standards from the American popular songbook, apart from one Bill Coon original Fall Rain at Night, and they [...]
Billy Cobham brought his Time Machine quintet to Union Chapel as part of a short European tour. His slow careful walk to his drum set belied the high energy performance which the 81 year-old was to unleash. He also brought [...]
A “shieling” is a shelter used in the summer to look after livestock on pastureland. It encompasses a nomadic lifestyle and connects to the Scottish traditions and music that are such an influence on Fergus McCreadie’s music. Fergus embarked on [...]
Australian guitarist Frank Gambale brought his All-Star band to Kings Place and announced he’d be playing a cross section of material from his long career. Although rooted in jazz fusion, the music threatened to stray from this brief any number [...]
Guitarist Max Clouth and drummer Martin Standke are Ragawerk. Standke has something of a conventional jazz background, majoring in jazz percussion from Cologne University of Music and based for much of his time in Frankfurt. Clouth studied jazz guitar at [...]
With “One foot in Soho, another in the Punjab”, Shez Raja and his band returned to Ronnie Scotts for the premiere of his eighth album release “Spellbound” with an exuberant and energetic performance. The album, with its vital hybrid of [...]
“My love and respect for the musicians, composers and characters who created this art form runs deeper in me than you could ever imagine. If I can get across 1% of those feelings to a listener, that is a win”. [...]
This was the only U.K. visit of John Scofield’s Long Days Quartet, the name apparently inspired by the long summer days of this July tour. It was also an opportunity for Scofield to reconnect with John Medeski. Talk from the [...]
Here’s an intriguing question. How can an album win an award for Best Traditional Western music at the Western Heritage Awards …and simultaneously be ranked 7th in The Times’ top jazz albums of 2024? The conundrum was answered by Hilary [...]
Andrea Rinciari is an Italian guitarist who has been very active on the London jazz scene. He has been collaborating with saxophonist Alex Garnett, drummer Mark Taylor and bassist Lorenzo Morabito, playing regular sessions and this album is the culmination [...]
