Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra ( RNCM. Manchester Jazz Festival. 18 May 2024. Review by John Quinn) There was an almost tangible ...

A sell-out crowd at Café OTO on Friday night witnessed what to my mind is one of the finest and most moving concerts I’ve seen in many a year. Nat Birchall is a saxophonist and composer much better ...

Writer / photographer John Watson attended a workshop with Mike Gibbs and Bill Frisell, and a concert by the Bill Frisell Trio, both events held at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on 17 May 2024.

For the last couple of years, bass guitarist Ben Crosland has been promoting occasional gigs at the charming St. Stephen’s Church in Lindley, close to his Huddersfield home; on Saturday night it was ...

Daan Herweg – In Search of the Lost Chord (Key Element Music. Album review by Andrew Taylor-Dawson) Pianist and composer Daan Herweg delights on this tight ten-track set that fuses jazz tradition, ...

Stochelo Rosenberg/Paulus Schafer Quartet plus Karen Street’s L’Espirit Du Jazz(LSO St Luke’s, 11 May 2024. The Gypsy Jazz Festival Of London. Review by Nigel Price) Stochelo Rosenberg.

Pianist Geoff Castle (1949-2020), a member of Ian Carr’s Nucleus, Paz and Carmina was a “a pivotal and seemingly ubiquitous player on the British jazz scene” (Roger Farbey). His ...

Monsterosa – The Seasons in the City (Pleasureland Records GBWQ04-33. Album review by Jane Mann) ...

Terence Collie Quartet (Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho. 4 May 2024. Review by Chris Gazzard) ...

The news that Kit Downes has recently won the Boy Edgar Prijs, a major prize in the Netherlands, prompted me to check in with him and to get an update about the range of his ...

A Bay Area native, Laurie Antonioli is a vocalist and educator. She grew up hearing singers like Nancy King and Mark Murphy ...

The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist/composer John Escreet. His next album, The Epicenter of Your Dreams, will be released 7 June 2024. It’s a second ...