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Brick Lane Jazz Festival 2026

by Andy Crowther
May 3, 2026

Various Venues Brick Lane Jazz Festival London April 24-26, 2026 2026 was the 5th edition of The Brick Lane Jazz Festival, and once again featured a variety of jazz-leaning acts from across the musical spectrum. There was a strong focus on young, mainly UK-based and often unsung artists, plus a smattering ...

Al Foster, Mike Clark, Muriel Grossmann, Anmol Mohara and more

by Andy Crowther
November 7, 2025

Featuring Al Foster (with Chris Potter and Brad Mehldau), Mike Clark (with Patrice Rushen, Eddie Henderson and Henry Franklin!) and incredible young artists from around the world. Heavy on the saxophone this month, the women leading the charge. Playlist Awen Ensemble “Atgofion" from Atgofion (New Soil) 00:00 Levitation Orchestra “Imladris" from Sanctuary (Independent) 07:04 ...

Marysia Osu: Harp, Beats & Dreams

by Chris May
October 4, 2024

Who knows how the jazz harp paradigm might have evolved had the instrument's most adventurous twentieth-century player, Detroit-born Dorothy Ashby, lived beyond her premature passing in 1986. Since then, most American jazz harpists have stuck pretty closely to the neo-classical glissandos and block chords-based style established by Alice Coltrane. New York's Brandee Younger is among the ...

Nubiyan Twist: Freedom Fables

by Chris May
January 23, 2021

Guitarist Tom Excell's Nubiyan Twist is one of the more substantial groove-based fusion outfits orbiting the perimeter of Britain's alternative jazz world. The band combines soul, funk, modal jazz, hip hop, and West African Afrobeat and highlife in a dancefloor-friendly melange which is a whole lot of fun while also possessing some depth. Based in Leeds ...

Inexpressible Infinity

By Levitation Orchestra

Label: Astigmatic Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Odyssey; Mystical Yang; MF One; Clairevoyance; A Small Truth; Twin Serpents.

Chris May's Best Releases of 2019

by Chris May
December 7, 2019

The world may be going to hell in a handcart, but the year has been full of uplifting jazz. Here are ten of the best albums--the first seven newly recorded, the final three reissued or recently unearthed. Each one is the coyote's cojones. Yazz Ahmed Polyhymnia Ropeadope The eagerly ...

Levitation Orchestra: Inexpressible Infinity

by Chris May
November 12, 2019

A lot of bull is talked about collective music-making, so it is good to come across a band who not only talk the talk but also walk the walk. Good, too, to come across a debut album that is as outstanding as the thirteen-piece Levitation Orchestra's Inexpressible Infinity. Vibrant, joyous and cosmopolitan, it joins Theon Cross's ...