Consummate performer and every singer’s vocal idol, Liane Carroll, sidles up to the piano, still in coat and scarf, and starts chatting and joking with her audience about the ‘Cassandra incident’ earlier in the week.
WordTheatre, a company specialising in live readings of stories by actors, presented ‘And All That Jazz’ at the St.
The Jazz Nursery, set aboard a magnificent replica of Sir Francis Drake’s Golden Hinde, hosted no less than three high quality emerging acts in one evening as part of the 2015 EFG London Jazz Festival.
Last Thursday saw the launch of the Tubby Hayes documentary, A Man in a Hurry, at Foyle’s bookshop in London as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival.
We were promised a smorgasbord of jazz royalty at this gig, and we certainly got it: great musicians, great tunes, great arranging and great playing.
After a lovely low-key opening set from Femi Temowo, featuring a Lagos-style version of The Beatles’ tune ‘Blackbird’ and a song called ‘A Moment in Time’, inspired by Chinua Achebe’s classic Things Fall Apart, both of which will feature on Temowo’s album-in-the-making Blood is Not for Drinking, the audience was left to ponder the role of music in relation to conflict, in the wake of the tragic events that unfolded in Paris just the previous evening, as we waited for US vocalist Cécile McLorin...
The theme at this year’s Belgrade Jazz Festival was ‘The Future Of Jazz’.
There’s a crush of boho twentysomethings up against Brighton’s Concorde stage, working themselves up into a state of such anticipation that the appearance of a sober-looking tour manager bearing towels and water is greeted with a ragged cheer.
It was the early 1990s when this writer first discovered drummer Steve Smith.
If walls could talk then the 100 Club, squeezed between Oxford street’s identikit chain stores, would tell a story worth putting on film.
