Live Reviews
Review: Scarborough Jazz Festival 2024
Stormy weather and turbulent seas lashed South Bay’s Victorian coastal spa on the first day of the 21st Scarborough Jazz Festival. It was held...
Raye: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2024
Violins reminiscent of a film’s opening sequence play out as Raye, full name Rachel Keen, takes the Swiss audience on a journey through songs...
Adam Makowicz in Kalisz, Poland
“Welcome Back, Adam” – this is how the second concert in the jubilee season of the Kalisz Philharmonic was titled. For on Friday, 20 September...
Daryl Sherman & Jay Leonhart at The Pheasantry
All of you who retain fond memories of Weber & Fields, Wheeler & Woolsey, two-a-day for Keith and such could have done worse than...
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Nicola Farnon Trio at CICCIC, Taunton
Singer and bassist Farnon led Dave Newton (p) and Phil Johnson (d) in a set including GAS classics and Stevie Wonder’s For Once In My Life
European Jazz Conference no. 10, Ghent
While young delegates worried about climate change, concerts showed there is no boundary between European jazz and North African music
Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet at Cologne Jazz Week
The American trumpeter cooled down a hot Cologne, following the less is more principle, while his drummer rattled the hardware energetically
Barnes, Spillett, Brown and Tracey at the Garibaldi in Northampton
Saxophones, bass and drums didn't miss a piano or guitar in a set of standards at a venue reminding of London's New Merlin's Cave of yore
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Amersfoort World Jazz Festival
The Nazis banned Amersfoort native Mondriaan and the degenerate jazz but here were Deborah Brown, Houston Person, Hans Dulfer and more
Flow Festival 2024, Helsinki
Flow isn't all about jazz but the bits that were - especially Marcos Valle, 80, and Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab - gave it a good showing
Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival, 2024
The 15th edition of the Swedish festival included Jan Lundgren, João Bosco, Andy Sheppard, Billy Cobham and an Esbjörn Svensson tribute
Jazz in De-Lovely Dorking
At the Watermill jazz club, Graham Thomas saw the Joe Farnsworth & Sarah Hanahan Quartet and Anaïs Reno with the Pete Malinverni Trio
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