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Upcoming Sebastian Rochford Album Finding Ways Lands in A Post-Punk Direction
Heads up on a new Sebastian Rochford record that features great guitar work from David Preston.
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...
John Taylor trio, Tramonto, ECM **** recommended
Tramonto is an intoxicating blend of John Taylor originals, Ralph Towner and Steve Swallow work
Ian Shaw, Julian Siegel & Brigitte Beraha are big Limerick draws for ’25
Lots of delights guaranteed down in Limerick at the jazz this autumn as some leading stars of the music descend on Shannonside.
Details of the New Look Ronnie’s Upstairs And Club-Within-A-Club Greene Rooms
Big developments at Ronnie Scott's usher in a brand new day
New Bottle, Old Wine: Blogger perspective – Change Is Good. These Thoughts Occur While listening to Gil Evans
Last year was the hardest yet for marlbank. The archive was lost, a whole lot of changes and a rescue plan had...
BEING AND BECOMING, ARS LUDICRA, MORE IS MORE
Formidable group play that takes the innovative Being & Becoming sound to the next, higher level.
What’s the Point of Reviewing?
And was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow right when he wrote that "the strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticised"?
Tributes To Some
Never regret thy fall, / O Icarus of the fearless flight / For the greatest tragedy of them all / is never...
Interview with Matt Benson, the Singer and Trombonist Behind the Remarkable Sit Back Down Again
"Autobiographical, Personal, Dream" - that's how Matt Benson describes his remarkable foray into the limelight under his own name on the lit...
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...
A Horace Silver 1965 Seattle Set To Be Finally Released
It's taken 60 years to see the light of day.
On the rise: Casper Hejlesen
'The word “minimalism” caught my interest, and the word has inspired me to shape a new way of playing and thinking music'...
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...
Track of the Week: ‘Chant for Don Cherry’ from It’s Always About Love by Ancient Infinity Orchestra ****
Ozzy Moysey's Ancient Infinity Orchestra and 'Chant for Don Cherry' land in the track of the week spot
Track of the Week: Fergus McCreadie, Wayfinder, Edition ****
Hug a hut: Track of the week is a buoyant Fergus McCreadie original that's part of a work inspired by North Uist...
Track of the Week: the Anat Fort version of Paul Motian Psalm piece, Yahllah
Drawn from The Dreamworld of Paul Motian.
Track of the Week: ‘Cypher Nutria’ from Pharos led by Trevor Mires and Paul Dunlea
Recorded in America at Van Gelder's in New Jersey - shrine of shrines, the most revered jazz recording studio in history where...
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