The 35th Montreal Jazz spectacular offered what it always does, opportunity and encouragement to hook up the A-team, whatever project is in the works, show us its optimal incarnation.
House is synonymous with dance.
This superlative live soundtrack was a highlight of the PRSF/South Bank Centre initiative ‘New Music Biennial’, which presented 20 brand new compositions across a wide range of genres.
The ultra-stylish Kit Packham’s One Jump Ahead band is now 30 years old.
Last year’s Glasgow Jazz Festival finished with a desolately sad Bobby Wellins filling the Sunday slot he was meant to headline with Stan Tracey, who had cancelled that morning, the cancer which would kill him, we now know, just beginning to bite.
The House of St.
You just know when a performer and a venue are meant for each other.
You can’t fault tenor-saxophonist Simon Spillett for his dedication to the music.
Having been described on his label's website as a "consummate piano maestro", whose approach to making music is invariably geared around a "quest for the never-before-heard", there was a lot riding on tonight's show to keep Michael Wollny's lofty reputation intact.
As was evident from various overheard conversations, there are many who revere Hideaway in Streatham as a musical oasis in south London.
