People Power: Free Music Legends Return With Album Launch At Cafe OTO
- Monday, November 23, 2015
Musical anarchists and free flux improv icons People Band release Live At Cafe OTO early next year on the 33Xtreme imprint.
Musical anarchists and free flux improv icons People Band release Live At Cafe OTO early next year on the 33Xtreme imprint.
Fine purveyors of vinyl platters Gearbox Records host a special night at London’s Vortex venue on Monday 30 November.
In recent years the film programme at the London jazz festival has grown in stature, and the development continues this year with some excellent features at the Barbican that include documentaries on subjects as rich as Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Jaco Pastorius and Frank Morgan.
American singer-songwriter Melody Gardot’s new album, Currency of Man, released earlier this year, has been doing very well.
As they say in football 'it was a game of two halves'.
For their 2015 EFG London Jazz Festival appearance, The Impossible Gentlemen delivered a feast of great compositions to the 606 Club.
Keyboardist and vocalist Xantoné Blacq has been a consistently cool presence on both jazz and soul/pop scenes for some time – not least as a key sideman to Amy Winehouse – but also as a solo artist of increasing repute.
In contemplating last weekend’s LJF gala events, I had every expectation of a perfect three-way vocal experience.
No one in the jazz world writes music like Maria Schneider.