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Sketches Of Spain Or Somethin' Else

by Mike Raggett
September 29, 2026

The Morning After It's the 1970s, the days before satnav, cell phones and Google Maps. I'm an Englishman working in Spain. I'm a training supervisor for a major motor manufacturer, so I have to travel around a lot, visiting garages--I don't think we called them dealerships in those days--to talk to sales staff about dealing with ...

David Katz: Chasing Dub Beyond The Soundsystem

by Lawrence Peryer
September 19, 2026

Polish Jazz Festival returns to London

September 14, 2026

September 2026 marks the second Polish Jazz Festival to take place in London-curated, as it was in 2025, by businessman and music fanatic Łukasz Droździel. Three significant women singers form the backbone of the festival: Anna Maria Jopek (also a pianist), pop/jazz/world music star Kayah, and jazz vocal legend Urszula Dudziak. The latter celebrates her 83rd ...

Jazz on a Summer's Day in Paris

by Mike Raggett
September 10, 2026

Paris sizzles in the summertime It was so hot the birds weren't singing. Or moving even. They too sat exhausted on the branches of the pine avenue in the Bois de Vincennes. Some were even trying to find shelter under the bonsai collection. Not the peacocks though. They had flopped under the heritage apple and pear ...

Mali Sheard: Hayfever

by Neil Duggan
September 4, 2026

Having built a strong reputation with London-based eight-piece Ankora, saxophonist Mali Sheard steps into the spotlight with her debut album, Hayfever. It is a release that will do that reputation no harm at all, offering a beguiling blend of jazz, folk and groove, seamlessly integrated into Sheard's distinctive improvisational style. A graduate of Tomorrow's Warriors ...

Paul Taylor Trombone

Paul Taylor writes and performs as a solo artist in a project known as Trombone Poetry.

He has published a wide-ranging series of poetry books with Redriff Press. 

He works as a freelance musician (performing, recording, composing, arranging, directing, compèring) in jazz, Latin music and free improvisation and runs two trios: Click Beetle and The Blowpipes Trombone Trio. 

He is a founding member of Roland Perrin's Blue Planet Orchestra.

Vince Dunn

Vince Dunn is available for ANY live, sessions, studio recordings, demos and touring work. An excellent sight reader, totally at ease playing to a click and with his years of experience performing with so many great artists, his playing style will compliment any session or live situation.

For the last 30 years Vince has been performing with a wide and eclectic mix of artists from The Vince Dunn Orchestra, The Aim, Pharrell Williams, Leon Ware, Madonna, Courtney Pine, Kylie Minogue, Loose Ends, The Funk Masters, Cleo Laine, Osibisa (New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival) Junior Giscombe, Omar, The Medicine Band, Frank McComb, Mel Gaynor (Simple Minds), Derrick McKenzie (Jamiroquai) Janet Kay, Award Winning Blues Harpist Errol Linton, BBC Jazz Award Winner Liane Carrol, Jack Pack (Britain’s got talent finalists) DeLatin Sound, Michelle John, Deleelah and a host of other notable artists.

Danalogue: Telling The Future Through Old Machines

by Lawrence Peryer
August 1, 2026

This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on synthesist and producer Danalogue.Danalogue is a founding member of The Comet Is Coming and half of Soccer96, and he's recently released his debut solo album, Teleportations. The record imagines grief and upheaval as a science-fictional voyage and was sparked by a chance encounter with the artist ...

Palestinian Nay Virtuoso, Faris Ishaq Weaves Cultural Memory With Contemporary Expression On Jasad جَسَد (arabic For “body”)

July 31, 2026

Bethlehem-born, Palestinian nay virtuoso and percussionist, Faris Ishaq is an extraordinary musician. As a frequent musical collaborator, releasing ‘Supplication’ with multi–Grammy Award-winning bassist John Patitucci and contributing as a recording artist to the BAFTA-nominated ‘Assassin’s Creed Mirage’ soundtrack, Faris is always seeking performance and recording avenues for the nay. And find them he did. The result ...

Kenny Garrett at Ronnie Scott’s: The Ancestors in the Room

by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
July 24, 2026

Kenny Garrett Ronnie Scott's London July 17, 2026 There are jazz clubs and there is the basement on Frith Street. Kenny Garrett, whom Miles Davis  heard and hired nearly forty years ago, is back, and at the first notes of 'Haynes Here' the room understood this would be not a night ...