Making Music At the risk of being ostracised by the JJ community I confess that, when contemplating what to take to that fabled desert island if I were only allowed discs from one genre of music, jazz ...
The Ellington Piano Project Duke Ellington had in a sense outlived himself when he made his final recording at the unlikely ...
In what might seem an already crowded scene, Soul Mama – in Stratford, East London – opened in September 2024 with quite a ...
The Songbook Sessions, Vol. 1 – 1920 Keeping the old tunes alive is an important part of the jazz tradition. Guitarist Glenn ...
Foreign Artists Singing In French 1931-1962 This is one for the Nice Novelties department. Exactly what it says on the tin, ...
City Lights This session led by Toronto-based pianist Anthony D’Alessandro is a joy to listen to from beginning to end. He is ...
Live At Smoke Nate Chinen’s informative sleeve note claims that the late Al Foster was born in 1943 but The New Grove ...
Birds Not an album inspired by the pandemic but listening to Birds and the attention given to birdsong by Tommaso Iacoveillo, ...
In October, Graham Colombé reviewed Rolande Hugard-Gourley’s book and referred to pianist Henri Renaud’s words about the significance of guitarist Jimmy Gourley’s influence on French jazz. This ...
On 4 December an appreciative audience celebrated a special concert at the Croydon Clocktower Café to commemorate 25 years ...
The Copenhagen Sessions Vol. 2 The recent release of Vol. 1 of this 2016 pan-European endeavour was met with part-praise, part-reservation in Konstantin N. Rega’s JJ review. Acknowledging “an ...
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