Jazz Articles about Joe Webb

About Joe Webb

Album Review

Joe Webb's Neath Beat is the work of a fascinating artist. Obsessed with both football and Britpop, Webb fuses those passions with his love for South Wales, filtering it all through the musical vocabulary of legendary piano titans like Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson and Count Basie. The result is an album that not only pays tribute to those influences but also stands as a compelling and unique artistic statement on its own. You could easily describe Webb's piano ...

Album Review

Joe Webb: Hamstrings & Hurricanes

Read "Hamstrings & Hurricanes" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
October 4, 2025

Open to all musical genres from the UK and Ireland, encompassing pop, rock, folk, urban, dance, jazz, blues, electronica and classical, the Mercury Prize stands as music's equivalent to literature's Booker Prize or art's Turner Prize. Past winners span from Arctic Monkeys and PJ Harvey to Arlo Parks, representing the award's diverse scope. Jazz has rarely featured among Mercury Prize winners, with Ezra Collective's Where I'm Meant To Be (Partisan, 2022) marking a historic breakthrough as the first ...

Album Review

Zara McFarlane: Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan

Read "Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
June 7, 2024

Zara McFarlane's fifth album--a recording that actually fits the vogueish description “project"--represents a marked change of focus for the singer, from London to New York City and points west. Closely associated with London's radical underground jazz scene, McFarlane has previously peopled her touring and recording bands with fellow adventurers such Shabaka Hutchings, Shirley Tetteh, Idris Rahman, Robin Hopcraft, Nathaniel Cross, Binker Golding and Moses Boyd. Significantly, too, McFarlane has also written the vast majority of the material she has recorded, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Joe Webb, Moppa Elliott, Olivia Pérez-Collellmir, Zach Brock & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 12, 2024

The restless spirit of Moppa Elliott kicks off a set that illustrates the breadth and depth of today's scene.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Moppa Elliott “Delaware Water Gap" Jonesville (Hot Cup) 0:16 Host talks 3:07 Moppa Elliott “Dimock" Disasters Vol. 2 (Hot Cup) 5:00 Host talks 9:55 Adam Baldych, Leszek Możdżer “Saltare" Passacaglia (ACT Music) 11:57 Zach Brock, Bob Lanzetti, Keita Ogawa “Moro Morocco" Drawing Songs (GroundUP ...

Album Review

Corrie Dick: Sun Swells

Read "Sun Swells" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid
January 28, 2024

Corrie Dick is a multi-instrumentalist who has recorded on drums, piano, vocals, synth, guitar, and trumpet. As a composer, Dick is known for his dynamism, his melodic slant, and his playfully subversive melding of genres. Presenting his sonically inventive drumming, which has a rhythmic epicenter of a new era of innovative British jazz, is Dick's release Sun Swells . The album's theme is to create a folk-rock-jazz with rock instrumentation and color by Rob Luft on guitar and Tom McCredie ...

Album Review

Rob Luft: Dahab Days

Read "Dahab Days" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
October 23, 2023

The beauty of holiday snapshots is that they can capture the good times (interesting places, pleasant sights) without necessarily reminding you of the possible downsides (weather issues, travel hassles, deadly pandemic, etc). Rob Luft's stay in Egypt might not have been a true vacation, considering that it came during a rampant period of Covid-19. Still, if his memories of the time included any lingering worry or uncertainty because of the circumstances, Dahab Days shows few discernible hints of it. He ...

Album Review

Rob Luft: Dahab Days

by Chris May
October 6, 2023

In an interview with AAJ in 2020, Rob Luft was asked to name six all-time favourite albums. Number one on his list was Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset's Dream Logic (ECM, 2012), a duo project with electronicist Jan Bang. Said Luft: “It's an album that really sounds like dreams, it's wonderful how it floats for forty-five, fifty minutes and teleports you to another place. The production is impeccable and the sound is so glistening." Luft could have been ...