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Club Profile

Blue Note Comes to London

by Mike Raggett
October 17, 2026

It's taken a while for the storied Blue Note jazz club chain to come to London. It seems they were keen to be in the city for some time but had to wait until the ideal location became available. That location is on St Martin's Lane just up from the central Trafalgar Square. It's in the heart of theatreland and close to the tourist hotspots of Soho and Covent Garden. As bandleader Gary Crosby says, you can take a pleasant ...

Album Review

Lao Dan / Vasco Trilla: New Species

Read "New Species" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
October 17, 2026

A fortuitous meeting between Spanish drummer Vasco Trilla and Chinese reed player Lao Dan at a festival in the latter's homeland led to a concert and subsequent studio session. Yet it is that first encounter, recorded at Old Heaven Books in Shenzhen, a hub of the country's improvised-music scene, that New Species preserves. Both musicians share an experimental outlook and prove well matched, with Dan among the better-known Chinese practitioners to Western ears and Trilla commanding a formidable reputation as ...

Live Review

Jill Scott with Freeman and the Future of Soul R&B

by Acacia Grace
October 17, 2026

Jill Scott Zénith Paris October 14, 2026 Jill Scott arrived at Zénith Paris--La Villette with the presence of a woman who understood both her artistry and her message. Opened in 1984, the venue sits within a cultural district with a long-standing relationship to jazz and popular music, including La Villette's jazz-festival tradition dating to 1986. On this evening, Scott brought that spirit of musical exploration into a performance where neo-soul, jazz, blues, and the rhythms ...

Album Review

David Six: Dance With The Ghosts III

Read "Dance With The Ghosts III" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège
October 17, 2026

On the Greek island of Lesbos, Moria was the largest refugee camp for those crossing the Mediterranean toward Europe, and one of the most sinister, before its destruction by fire in 2020. Shortly before, at the beginning of the pandemic, David Six, a composer, pianist and also percussionist, composed and recorded Moria (feat. Saied Silbak) (Self Produced, 2020) with oud player Saied Silbak, in solidarity with these refugees. This was the starting point of the Dance with the Ghosts ...

Album Review

Satoko Fujii - Myra Melford: Katarahi

by John Sharpe
October 17, 2026

On Katarahi, pianists Satoko Fujii and Myra Melford revel not in contrasts but in empathy. Although no longer the novelty they once were, piano duets exist in a rarefied plain. For a start, few venues or studios possess two high-quality grand pianos. Then the widescreen potential of the piano, with its possibilities for voices in each hand, throws down a challenge to would-be collaborators: can you do something more worthwhile together than you could do individually? Fujii and Melford answer ...

Miles Ahead: A Jazz Road Trip

Part 12: Discernment

by Billie Eidson
October 17, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18A drive from Oregon to Florida, to experience music and living across the USA, and ultimately join a jazz cruise. AKA, a listening practice, unfolding in real time--written on the road, in the spaces between cities and notes.Day Twenty The Jazz ...

Radio & Podcasts

Charlotte Greve: Everything She Loves, Under Her Own Name

by Lawrence Peryer
October 17, 2026

The Brooklyn saxophonist, composer, and singer joins us to discuss Waterbodies, her tenth album, which brings '80s power ballads, an orchestra, and a choir back to the one long saxophone tone where all her music starts. ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jo Harrop, Pete Roth Trio, Janette Mason, And More

by Colin Muirhead
October 17, 2026

Colin Muirhead previews the inaugural Durham Jazz Festival with festival director John Lyons. Featuring music by festival acts The Ronnie Scott's All Stars, Jo Harrop, the Pete Roth Trio, Marvin Muoneké, Janette Mason, the Olivia Cuttill Quintet, and more. Playlist The Ronnie Scott's All Stars “Love for Sale" from Jazz Classics (Ronnie Scott's Records) 0:00 John Lyons “Interview, part 1" from (7:14) SwanNek “Memory Loss" from At What Cost? (Live in Hexham) (Self Released) 11:42 John Lyons “Interview, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Thelonious Monk: Wrong Is Right, Part 2

by Stephen Braunginn
October 17, 2026

The conversation continues. In Part Two of Thelonious Monk: Wrong Is Right, Steve Braunginn rejoins T.S. Monk and Thelonious Monk IV, beginning with Charlie Rouse and the musical language he shared with Monk. From a remarkable Archie Shepp story and T.S.'s “No Monk, no funk" to archival recordings and the fourth generation carrying the Monk legacy forward, the conversation ultimately returns home--to Thelonious Monk the father, husband and man behind the mythology, and to Nellie Monk, the woman T.S. calls ...

From the Inside

The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business

by Markus Reuter
October 16, 2026

For a long time, I, and many colleagues, operated under a singular, sustaining delusion: that music was the most powerful force in the world. As an artist, you build your entire life around this belief. You trust that the art will speak for itself, that the resonance of a musical work will be enough. But eventually, a different reality sets in. The true engine of the music business isn't melody, harmony, or rhythm. It is the cult of personality. It ...