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Trish Clowes at Mermaid Arts Centre
by Ian Patterson
Trish Clowes Mermaid Arts Centre Bray, Ireland February 9, 2018 Almost five years had passed since saxophonist/composer Trish Clowes' only previous gig in Ireland, at the Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival 2013. Since then, Clowes has released a couple of well-received albums and was selected as a BBC Radio ...
The NJE at Indo, Whitechapel
by Gareth Thompson
The NJE Indo, Whitechapel London January 30, 2018 There has been a drinking establishment at 133 Whitechapel Road, east London, since the eighteenth century. A music license was first obtained in 1856 when the site was rebuilt after fire damage. Now a narrow bar, bookended by stained glass ...
Mark Cherrie Quartet: Joining The Dots
‘"A great musician in his own right and a great steel pannist." –Jazz FM From the artist himself: “My earliest memories of the steel pan were watching my father playing with the Russ Henderson Trio. Russ and my father (Ralph Cherrie) had arrived in the UK from Trinidad in the mid 1950's and quickly found that ...
Latchepen: Love Letters
by Rokas Kucinskas
Meet Latchepen--London-based gipsy jazz band consisting of four brilliant musicians (three of them being conservatory graduates). Full of passion for Django Reinhardt and 30s swing, their debut album Love Letters translates into a contemporary reflection of the era that saw jazz hit heights in popularity never to be seen afterwards, even though the particular type of ...
Music From Out There, In Here: 25 Years Of The London Jazz Festival
by Ian Patterson
Music From Out There, In Here: 25 Years Of The London Jazz Festival Emma Webster, George McKay 136 Pages University Of East Anglia 2017 There was a time when London had more jazz festivals than you could shake a stick at. Most, however, have disappeared, leaving the London Jazz Festival, ...
Bill Nelson's Dreamy Screens: Soundtracks From Echo Observatory 3-Disc Boxed Set Available December 1, 2017
Esoteric Recordings' imprint Cocteau Discs, dedicated to the work of Bill Nelson, are proud to announce the release of a deluxe 3 disc clamshell boxed set limited edition collection titled Dreamy Screens: Soundtracks from the Echo Observatory. The set features three albums, all recorded at Bill Nelson's Yorkshire home studio, the Echo Observatory, in 1981 and ...
Kishon Khan and Lokkhi Terra at London Latin Jazz Festival
by Gareth Thomas
Kishon Khan and Lokkhi Terra London Latin Jazz Festival PizzaExpress Live London October 20, 2017 Lokkhi Terra, led by Bangladeshi-born pianist Kishon Khan, brought their fusion of Bangladeshi folk and Afro-Cuban jazz to London Soho's Pizza Express Jazz Club on 20th October, as part of 2017's London Latin Jazz Festival. ...
Dizzy Gillespie in London, 1969
And on this final day of my four-part series of tributes to Dizzy Gillespie, I saved the best for last: In November 1969, Jazz at the Philharmonic was in London. In the following video, we get to hear producer Norman Granz introduce the first jam-session septet (and oh was a group): Dizzy Gillespie (t), James Moody ...
Courtney Pine: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
by David Burke
Courtney Pine didn't pick up his beloved tenor saxophone for more than a decade, until an album exploring the black British experience demanded it. The multi-instrumentalist eschewed the horn on the likes of Europa, House of Legends and Song (The Ballad Book), his two-hander with pianist Zoe Rahman. “I spoke to Sonny Rollins about ...
Just Announced! The Dean Brown Band ROLAJAFUFU Fall Tour 2017
TOUR DATES Nov 02: Bemowskie Centrum Kultury Warsaw, Poland Nov 03: Jazz w muzeum Festival Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland Nov 04: Vier Peh Stuttgart, Germany Nov 05: Ronnie Scott’s London, United Kingdom Nov 07: Master Class. University of Music Mannheim Mannheim, Germany Nov 08 New Morning Paris, ...
