Jazz Articles about Adam Fairhall

About Adam Fairhall

Album Review

Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall: Triangles

Read "Triangles" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
March 15, 2026

Violinist Olivia Moore and accordionist Adam Fairhall unveil a strikingly agile dialogue on their debut Triangles. This stylistically porous album refracts folk lineage, jazz instinct and chamber interplay into something quietly subversive. Moore arrives via folk and Indian classical study, while Fairhall--more often heard at the piano--draws from an eclectic hinterland of solo performance, early jazz, improv and less easily classified idioms. However, the eleven tracks, which span originals, covers and traditional sources, ground their unlikely turns in melody and ...

Album Review

Adam Fairhall / Johnny Hunter: Winifred Atwell Revisited

Read "Winifred Atwell Revisited" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
December 27, 2021

Winifred Atwell was a gifted pianist, born in Trinidad, who came to Britain to study classical music at the Royal Academy of Music in 1946. By the early 1950s, a combination of talent and a husband who knew his way around British popular entertainment had established Atwell as a bill-topping theatrical and recording star. Atwell's happy-go-lucky “honky tonk" style was a combination of American boogie woogie, which she had picked up from US servicemen in Trinidad, and ...

Album Review

Nat Birchall Sextet: Exaltation / Live In Athens Vol 1

Read "Exaltation / Live In Athens Vol 1" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
December 7, 2020

The saxophonist Nat Birchall is, alongside his friend the trumpeter Matthew Halsall, one of the instigators of the spiritual jazz scene centred around the northern British city of Manchester, two hundred miles and a lifestyle north of London. Birchall self-released his debut album, The Sixth Sense, in 1999. John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane were among his formative influences and his music continues along the trajectory they mapped out. Birchall last recorded with his ...

Album Review

Adam Fairhall: Friendly Ghosts

Read "Friendly Ghosts" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
September 1, 2017

Following undergraduate studies, virtuoso pianist Adam Fairhall took a Master's degree at Leeds College of Music, receiving a MMus in Jazz Studies (Performance) in 2005. Whilst at Leeds he studied with pianist Mark Donlon and took lessons with British jazz composer Matthew Bourne. The title of his album Friendly Ghosts, Fairhall's debut recording as a soloist, gives a strong clue as to its contents, revisiting as it does the earliest sounds of jazz to the most avant-garde. Stylistically, ...