Jazz Articles about Paul Edis

About Paul Edis

Album Review

Noa Levy & Paul Edis Trio: Portrait In Evans

Read "Portrait In Evans" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
April 26, 2026

Vocals and lyrics are often added to tracks that their composers intended as instrumentals. When those instrumentals form part of the legacy of pianist Bill Evans, the potential for something to go wrong is considerable. Fortunately, nearly everything goes right for singer Noa Levy and the Paul Edis Trio, as their shared devotion to Evans' music sparkles throughout Portrait In Evans. For many listeners, Evans' melodies and touch are so deeply ingrained that anything new may feel odd ...

Radio & Podcasts

Paul Edis, Ezra Collective, Harry Connick, Jr., Strictly Smokin’ Big Band, And More

by Colin Muirhead
December 20, 2025

Featuring music by Paul Edis & Friends, Ezra Collective, Harry Connick, Jr., Laufey, Louise Dodds, Bugge Wesseltoft, the Kevin Brown Quintet, the Strictly Smokin' Big Band, and more. Playlist Paul Edis & Friends “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" from On Christmas Day (Self Released) 00:00 Ezra Collective “Joy to the World" from Joy to the World (Partisan Records) 05:28 Harry Connick, Jr. “It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" from What a Night! A Christmas Album (Columbia ...

Album Review

Vasilis Xenopoulos Paul Edis Quartet: Feels Like Home

Read "Feels Like Home" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
May 10, 2024

The various meanings of home are the themes behind Feels Like Home--somewhere to belong to, a place to rejoin loved ones, a birthplace. This is the second album from Vasilis Xenopoulos and Paul Edis. They began playing together 20 years ago, when they both relocated to London to study. It follows on from A Narrow Escape (Paul Edis Music, 2016). Leading Greek saxophonist Xenopoulos is a flag-waver for straight-ahead jazz and can be found as co-leader of the ...

Album Review

Jo Harrop & Paul Edis: When Winter Turns to Spring

Read "When Winter Turns to Spring" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
January 31, 2023

Although Jo Harrop had previously released albums such as Songs for the Late Hours (Lateralize, 2019) and Weathering the Storm (Lateralize, 2020), the release of The Heart Waits (Lateralize, 2021) was a quantum leap forward for the Durham-born vocalist, not least because the album included fewer covers and far more original material than before. Harrop has said of that breakthrough album, “I sent my first lyrics to [pianist] Paul Edis and we wrote “If I Knew," which became the key ...

Album Review

Jo Harrop: The Heart Wants

Read "The Heart Wants" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
April 6, 2022

Is it the behind-the-beat feel Ms Harrop gets, even when she is not? Or perhaps it is in the phrasing? Somehow, she puts a listener in mind of Keely Smith, which is a good thing. There are some very talented jazz singers in the United Kingdom; Jo Harrop is certainly one of them. Here is a recording of loss and longing, and very well done it is. Much of the material Harrop presents in this recording, bluesy, mournful ...