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Tony Dudley-Evans

This album consists of a suite to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the beginnings of the work on the Ghent Altarpiece designed and painted by Jan van Eyck and Hubert van Eyck. The altarpiece has also been in the public [...]

'Back to Back' / 'Conduits' / 'Climbing In Circles Pt. 4'

These three albums reveal something of the variety of the current UK scene; Zaitz and Kavuma are part of the young scene, the new wave, and, as with many of the bands on that scene, lean towards the more mainstream [...]

Petter Eldh must be one of the most versatile, and indeed most brilliant, musicians in Europe. He is Swedish, but studied in Denmark at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory where he joined Django Bates’ wonderfully esoteric StoRMChaser big band. He has continued his [...]

Ingrid Laubrock, originally from Germany, studied in the UK, was a key member of the F-Ire Collective in London where she also led her own groups before relocating to New York.  She has become one of the most inventive improvisers [...]

Vermillion is Kit Downes‘ third album as leader on ECM, the first being his church organ exploration Obsidian, and the second the Dreamlife of Debris album recorded with a quintet including Tom Challenger, Lucy Railton, Stian Westerhus and Seb Rochford. [...]

The various lockdown periods in the last two years have clearly been extremely difficult for freelance musicians. However, the time away from the pressures of touring, recording and hustling for gigs has allowed space for new types of creativity.  In [...]

The Seven Dials Concert (rec. 1976)

The last few years have seen some excellent re-issues of British albums from the late 60s and early 70s that have presented a free-er approach to the music: The Spontaneous Music Ensemble’s Karyobin with John Stevens, Evans Parker, Kenny Wheeler, [...]

UKJN provides the most comprehensive coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. By a considerable margin. And yet our reviews (twenty and still counting at the time of publishing this) only pick up about 10% of what is on offer. [...]

EFG LJF 2021. 12/13 Nov.

Two appearances by Camae Ayewa, usually known as Moor Mother, one as solo artist in a co-promotion by the Pitchfork Festival and the London Jazz Festival, and one as co-leader of the band Irreversible Entanglements were major events in the [...]

9 November 2021.

Planck Walker was on this occasion a quartet led by alto saxophonist Sam Norris, a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music jazz course and featuring three graduates of the Guildhall jazz course: pianist Jay Verma, bass player Ali [...]

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