Think piece
Reflections, thoughts, musings, jottings, dreams.
It’s the work, not the label
Thoughts on how you get your new music out there when there are so many possibilities. One size doesn't fit all
It’s pushing at an open door to discover Irish jazz.
There’s plenty of talent out there but precious little coverage to reflect and represent this flowering.
Composition is a way out of the cul-de-sac, an exit from the grind, futureproofed for the long game
"It's the work, dear boy, it's the work"
Kind of Keith
At last amid the gloom a renewed sense of Belonging emerges plus an Irish jazz resurgence and we are on the cusp of...
Marking your own homework
Let's not stifle genuine reaction or smother it in schmooze. You can make decent points even if the direction happens to be positive,...
Tributes To Some
Never regret thy fall, / O Icarus of the fearless flight / For the greatest tragedy of them all / is never to...
Poor year for the art of the piano trio
A few thoughts on a select few piano trios that prove exceptions to the idea that 2025 hasn't been a great year for...
Why jazz?
Well. What, jazzer, jazz lover. Fellow shuffler in the anorakerie, gets you up in the morning? Hoking in the bins, perhaps. That's not...
Jazz In Trump’s America Is Under Attack
Trump is no friend of jazz and more to the point the music is under attack again when artistic leaders like Jason Moran...
What makes for great jazz club programming?
The wrong place for the right people - in the words of the great Barney Josephson of Cafe Society renown "you have a...
Friday column: How does a member of the public perceive jazz?
''Recognisability'' in the general unengaged public's eyes is completely at odds with what the reality of jazz is to people who are closer...
The Friday jazz letter – a popular recipe of a messenger
The start of a New Friday column. Look out for the next one on the 27th. Today's theme - a welcome pluralism. Jazz...
- Sharp Little Bones, Step Up! Get Down! Full Beam Music ***
- Rahsaan Barber, Eternal, Jazz Music City Records ***1/2
- Finn Carter, Finding Home, Whirlwind **** recommended
- Gary Crosby Quartet featuring Cherise Adams-Burnett + Maddy Coombs trio, Blue Note, London ****
- Michael Kanan, Horacio Fumero and Guillem Arnedo, The Sweetest Sounds, Fresh Sound ***
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