Jazz Articles about Sarah Tandy

About Sarah Tandy

Album Review

Binker Golding: Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy

Read "Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
May 31, 2022

Acknowledged as one of the top UK saxophonists since the 2010s, Binker Golding established himself as half of the duo Binker and Moses with drummer Moses Boyd. On the same Gearbox Records label, Golding issued his first solo album Abstractions of Reality Past & Incredible Feathers in 2019. A departure from the uninhibited free improvisation and lashing dance rhythms that Binker and Moses are known for, Abstractions... featured a less raw, sophisticated hard bop vibe. Golding's latest, Dream Like a ...

Live Review

Electronic Explorations in Afro-Cuban and UK Jazz

by Chris May
May 15, 2019

Sarah Tandy, Yussef Dayes, Kevin Haynes, Adel Gomez, Feliciano Arango, Seiji Milton Court Concert Hall Electronic Explorations in Afro-Cuban and UK Jazz London May 12, 2019 Jazz and Cuban music intersections go back to the 1910s and pianist Jelly Roll Morton's embrace of what he called “the Spanish tinge." Things really got moving in the 1940s, when Dizzy Gillespie toured and recorded with conga player Chano Pozo, and Charlie Parker recorded with Machito's rumba ...

Album Review

Sarah Tandy: Infection In The Sentence

Read "Infection In The Sentence" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 18, 2019

Sarah Tandy made a mark on the alternative London jazz scene three years ago as the pianist on alto saxophonist Camilla George's luminous debut, Isang (Ubuntu). More recently, she has played piano and keyboards on two other headline albums: George's The People Could Fly (Ubuntu, 2018), and alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi's SEED Ensemble's debut, Driftglass (Jazz re:freshed, 2019). Tandy's own-name album debut was just a matter of time... and here it is, a 360-degree, access-all-areas blinder.