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MAY 2012 Editor: Mark Gilbert  |
 Jazz Journal Index 2011What happened in jazz in 2011? Find that review or article as published in Jazz Journal 2011 via the handsomely appointed Jazz Journal Index 2011: details of 798 CD reviews, 27 DVD reviews and 39 book reviews The Jazz Digest, May 2012Choice snips from JJ May: Kenny Garrett smelling his way into jazz, Joel Forrester playing therapist to Monk, Alan Luff digging proto-jazzman Franz Schubert, Geoffrey Smith on how JRR became GS's Jazz . . . and Jasper Høiby, seeing the light in the dark Ystad: From one Kurt to anotherMark Gilbert previews the 2012 Ystad jazz festival, another good reason - after Wallander - for southern Sweden to be on the UK's cultural radar New Orleans comes to AsconaMark Gilbert previews the Swiss festival that brings the flavour of New Orleans and points beyond to Lake Maggiore Review: Jersey Jazz FestivalBob Weir reports from the revived Jersey Jazz Festival, scene of many a mainstream triumph in past decades. This year's mix ranged from Dennis Rollins's high-energy jazz and funk to Simon Spillett's urbane bop and standards Geoffrey Smith leaves Jazz Record RequestsGeoffrey Smith, presenter of BBC Radio 3's Jazz Record Requests, is to leave the programme following a decision to refresh one of the BBC's oldest jazz features Review: Gateshead IJF’The first major UK festival in the calendar, the Gateshead International Jazz Festival becomes more of a bonsai London International Jazz Festival with each passing year,’ writes Fred Grand Review: Yuriy Galkin Nonet, CroydonThe Russian bassist offers ’a refreshing antidote to the harmonically bereft punk-prog-indie inspired fare that unreasonably excites so many in the jazz (and, unsurprisingly, non-jazz) media’ writes Mark Gilbert Review: Marcus Roberts, Gateshead“Roberts is too elegant and maybe too classically-trained to go for filth, but a majestic bluesiness, with physicality and movement in the attack, permeated his Coltrane playing,” says Andy Hamilton Review: Tord Gustavsen, LondonJohn Adcock finds the Norwegian pianist bringing new meaning to the idea of jazz trading on a Sunday: no JATP-style sparring contests here but reverential silence between occasional solos in an evening of hushed spirituality Review: Don Weller at LowestoftGarry Booth salutes the bruised but unbowed sound of no-nonsense tenor saxophone campaigner Don Weller on a rainswept night in Lowestoft Review: Portico Quartet, NorwichGarry Booth finds that the wayward, groove-based improvisers of the first two albums have retreated into monophonic anaesthesia Jim Mullen for Croydon Record FairThe spring 2012 edition of the Croydon Record Fair, Sunday 29 April, features jazz on 78, LP, CD (maybe, even, on wax cylinder) and live from the Dave Green trio with Jim Mullen Spring jazz festivals, home and awayAs the days lengthen we preview some of the leading jazz festivals in the 2012 spring season - in the UK, France and a point in between Mintzer, Erskine, Brecker for ScotlandThe Scottish National Jazz Orchestra led by Tommy Smith teams up with Bob Mintzer, Peter Erskine and Randy Brecker in dates saluting Weather Report and Michael Brecker with Wallander star Krister Henriksson.jpg "Jazz Journal Critics' Poll 2011") Jazz Journal Critics' Poll 2011Thirty leading critics choose 20 favourites from the 798 records reviewed in Jazz Journal in 2011. Among the top 10, Jan Lundgren, Bobby Wellins, Tommy Smith, Kurt Elling |
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