One of the very great figures of British Jazz, saxophonist Peter King is eighty years old today. Colleagues, friends and fans send best wishes: JULIAN ARGÜELLES: Even now at the age of 54 I remember very clearly when I was [...]
Scottish pianist Brian Kellock released a superb solo piano album in 2019, Bidin’ My Time. There are review and purchase links below (*). His typically modest answer to the “instrument you wish you played” question in this lockdown interview (writes [...]
Sebastian writes: In 2005, Digby Fairweather introduced me to a quite remarkable person. Sue Davies, who passed away peacefully from cancer on 18 April 2020, four days after her 87th birthday, had been widowed in 2004. Her late husband was [...]
Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is, understandably but sadly, closed today. This happens to be the thirtieth anniversary of an art heist on 18 March 1990 which still stands, according to the museum’s website, as “the single largest property theft [...]
Ann Braithwaite, originally from Barrington, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, has been running the Boston-based PR firm Braithwaite and Katz Communications since 1986. Journalists love working with her for the quality music she connects them with, and the many long standing [...]
There is, quite literally, no other musical experience like a concert by Hermeto Pascoal. In his review of the great Brazilian’s 80th birthday concert at the Barbican in 2016 (link below), John L Walters described two aspects and gives a [...]
Saxophonist Art Themen, who has been Patron of Herts Jazz since 2014 following the passing of Stan Tracey, will be appearing in two very different contexts at this year’s Herts Jazz Festival. Art Themen has such an alert, lively and [...]
“When it’s done properly, it does sound simple; sounds like anybody can do it,” the great American pianist Teddy Wilson once said. Brian Kellock’s new solo piano album Bidin’ My Time ‘does it properly’ and often conveys exactly that sense: there [...]
John Fordham of the Guardian celebrated his 70th birthday early in 2018, but even without the excuse of a birthday this year, it feels like a good moment to be saluting the doyen of British jazz writers. He is the [...]
UKJN marks the end of International Women’s Month 2019 with this interview with French flautist Sylvaine Hélary (*). She is about to set off on a month-long tour during April, which will take in six countries – Finland, Estonia, Latvia, [...]
