Jasper Høiby unveils Qualia at The Vortex
- Thursday, January 14, 2016
Bassist and bandleader Jasper Høiby wears a well-earned smile.
Live Reviews
Young jazz talents shine at Jazztopad Festival
- Wednesday, December 16, 2015
What defines the festive in festival is not hard to discern.
Daymé Arocena showcases soulful talents at The Forge
- Friday, December 4, 2015
At just 22 years of age, Cuban singer Daymé Arocena is proving to be one of Gilles Peterson’s most precocious finds.
Chris Mapp’s Gonimoblast and Arve Henriksen burst out of the sonic darkness at The Crossing
- Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Chris Mapp was one of three ‘Fellows’ (the other two were Lauren Kinsella and Yazz Ahmed) supported in 2014/15 by Birmingham promoters Jazzlines, with financial support from the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
Rising sax star Melissa Aldana gets cooking at Pizza Express Jazz Club
- Tuesday, December 1, 2015
It isn’t unusual at events such as the London Jazz Festival that you come across at least one new and talented artist.
Filomena Campus’ spellbinding Monk homage at Theatralia Jazz Fest
- Friday, November 27, 2015
Curated by the award winning jazz vocalist, lyricist, lecturer and theatre director, Filomena Campus, the final night of the third annual Theatralia Jazz Festival saw an adapted jazz version of the theatre production Misterioso, A Journey into the Silence of Thelonious Monk, featuring a script by the renowned Italian writer, poet and journalist, Stefano Benni.
Richard Pite’s Jazz Repertory Company and Alex Garnett’s Bunch of Five & NYSQ swing London Jazz Fest out in style
- Friday, November 27, 2015
The EFG London Jazz Festival’s final day allowed the fleet of foot and this reporter to speed across the capital to embrace jazz in its period glory and then to take in a bracing look at the music today.
Kurt Elling, Get the Blessing and Ralph Towner ensure Pančevo punches above its weight
- Thursday, November 26, 2015
Hosted in the city’s Cultural Centre and featuring a line-up of artists that would put many much larger festivals to shame, Pančevo, a small city just 22km outside of Belgrade, seems to have managed the neat trick of striking the right balance between funding, artistic integrity and admission price to produce a classy event.
Cuban Mela fires up at Camden Forge
- Thursday, November 26, 2015
The Cuban Mela was inarguably the LJF’s most vibrant closing event.
Terri Lyne Carrington and Charenee Wade hit celebratory soulful groove down at Ronnie Scott’s
- Thursday, November 26, 2015
If there is such a thing as the short straw for improvising musicians it may well be a booking in the days immediately after the London Jazz Festival.