Live reviews
Recent live gig and concert reviews
Lisa O’Neill makes her Fermanagh debut in Blake’s
The No Train to Cavan singer heads Erne side
Marvin Muoneké charms the Flamingo
A first time appearance by fast rising star singer trumpeter Marvin Muoneké at a Soho club with a famous name.
Van Morrison Alumni Band Lights Up the Emerald
Players associated with Van Morrison down the years continue their weekly Tuesday residency
Leo Richardson Quartet, B3 Lounge, The Bohemia, London ****
The powerful tenorist goes into the studio in the autumn. Proved timely then this home fixture that our man in Finchley unleashed
Freddie Hendrix at Lillies
New tunes, blistering power and tender is the night balladry.
Immy Churchill, Songs That Shaped Me, Vortex Downstairs ****
A rising vocals star finds her own path
Marvin Muoneké, Mark Lockheart, Gary Crosby, Alex Webb and Winston Clifford – Cadogan Hall **** recommended
A lunchtime appointment themed around the timelessness of Coltrane and Hartman proves charming and thoughtfully spun in Chelsea.
Foy Vance, The Wake, Rounder ****
Amazing stuff, utterly magnetic especially 'Call Me Anytime.'
The Bad Plus, Chris Potter, Craig Taborn, Barbican, City of London ****
Playing the music of the Keith Jarrett American Quartet on their farewell tour, The Bad Plus were on uncompromising kickass form.
Joshua Burnside, It’s Not Going to Be Okay, Nettwerk ****
Quite the homespun folk masterpiece from the widely regarded Northern Irish folk musician on his most heartfelt and humane album yet.
Talkline, Vortex, Dalston ***
Unusually fronted by a singer who plays vibes accompanied by double bass and piano, Talkline on this performance played originals and treatments of...
Ethan Iverson, Vortex, Dalston ****
A visit by US pianist Ethan Iverson in the company of two British players was illuminated by joyous stride and choice, well aimed...
Ches Smith Clone Row, Vortex, Dalston ***1/2
Tone rows, microtonalism, punk jazz and more from an edgy 2 guitar sporting four-piece on crunching form.
Sidewalk Boogie down the Gasworks conjure ‘Dark Eyes’
The Sidewalk Boogie arrangement took the banging gypsy jazz tune older than old beyond traddery distant to the lonely eastern steppes ingeniously into...
Live review: Karim Saber Quintet, Pizza Express Live, Soho ****
Unveiling music from Sundance.
Live: Count Basie Orchestra directed by Scotty Barnhart feat. Gunhild Carling, Ronnie Scott’s, Soho ****
You could cut a rug to that chug, chug chug – all night long.
Live review: Simon Spillett quartet, The Bohemia, Finchley
An evening in the B3 Lounge of Tubby Hayes, Benny Golson and Johnny Griffin tunes led by saxophonist and Tubbyologist Simon Spillett at...
- Monty Alexander, A Jamarican in Paris, Pee Wee! ****
- Christ-Stéphane Boizi, As The Spirit Leads, Banger Factory **** recommended
- Gustav Lundgren, Plays Coltrane, Prisma Music ***1/2
- Zawinul Legacy Band 3.0, Live At Grafenegg, Ropeadope ***1/2
- Ekep Nkwelle, Caged Bird, Mack Avenue ***
- Scott Flanigan to relocate Scott’s Jazz Club to a more central Belfast location
- Joe Block hits the album of the week spot, a new podcast and Another Day is track of the week
- Moisés P. Sánchez, Where Light Begins, Fresh Sound ***1/2
- Espen Eriksen Trio, Almost There, Runne Grammofon ***1/2
- Linda May Han Oh & Melissa Aldana, Beneath Lifted Skies, Biophilia ***1/2
- Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr, Nearness, Blues & Greens/Candid Records ****
- Birmingham Jazz hits the nifty 50s
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