Reviews
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...
Reviewed: Art Themen Organ Trio | Ant Law & Brigitte Beraha | Louis Stewart & Jim Hall | Greg Amirault Trio
Art Themen Organ Trio: Live In Soho (Ubuntu UBU0167)
In November 2024 the seemingly indefatigable saxophonist Art Themen celebrates his 85th birthday and this record...
Reviewed: Erroll Garner | Ilario Ferrari | Chube, live in Taunton
Erroll Garner: Concert By The Sea (Waxtime 772361 LP)
My baptism into live jazz began with concerts by three legendary pianists at what was then...
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Reviewed: Filippo Dall’Asta | Félix Lemerle | Méva’s Journal | Paul Quinichette
Filippo Dall’Asta: The Hot Club Of Tenerife (filippodallasta.com)
Italian guitarist Dall’Asta has achieved considerable success with his fusion of “gypsy jazz” and popular music to...
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...
Reviewed: Alexander Brott | Walter Smith III | Reported: Jazz wars in Amsterdam
If you’re lilywhite and the Dutch Peter Bernstein and you got ambitions to set up a new project, better switch to oud or ehru or beat it
Reviewed: Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall | Loz Speyer’s Inner Space | Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri | Trygve Seim & Frode Haltli | Joachim Cooder
Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall: Fanfares & Freedoms (Discus 181CD)
Paul Dunmall is enjoying something of a renaissance at the moment, this adventurous live set...
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Reviewed: Jessica Ackerley | Orson Claeys | Joe Sanders | Superposition
Given my longstanding appreciation of jazz that traverses the genre boundaries, it’s perhaps not surprising that each of the albums I’ve reviewed this month...
Reviewed: Nigel Price & Alban Claret | Garden | Dario Miranda
Nigel Price And Alban Claret: Entente Cordiale (Elsden Music EM05)
Entente is so cordiale in this joint album by guitarists Nigel Price and Alban Claret...
Reviewed: Ross Lorraine | Rose Mallett | Monika Herzig | Hyeseon Hong
Ross Lorraine: More From The Heart (RLR002)
Songwriter Ross Lorraine teams up with Claire Martin (as co-producer and backing vocalist) for a second album of...
Reviewed: Myra Brownbridge | Paul Carlon Quintet | Mark Cherrie Quartet
I always find this time of year to be about more than kids returning to school and the dreaded start of months ending in...
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