I have coaxed friends to many strange and unpredictable concerts, but this week’s “Sesame Street Trombone Jazz” was one of the more unusual invitations. Yet after Open Sesame’s album launch for Fuzzy and Blue – Joe Fiedler’s second collection of adaptations of [...]
2020 marked the centennial of Charlie Parker’s birth. Tributes – like nearly everything else last year – were limited, postponed or cancelled. Kevin Sun took this opportunity to dive into Parker’s catalogue of recordings and interviews and distil it into [...]
“The world is full of eminent musicians deserving of documentaries,” German-Canadian film-maker Brigitte Berman explained on Friday night 6 August, the 90th anniversary of the death of Leon (Bix) Beiderbecke. “But to make a documentary you need to be ready [...]
“DEL. FEE. OH. You pronounce it Del-Fee-Oh.” This is how Delfeayo Marsalis enters the stage: with gentle sass and a light rebuke, politely chiding the announcer for not having yet learnt how to pronounce his name. The interaction seems innocuous enough, [...]
Paul Dunmall and Mark Sanders combine as a duo for the first time on record on this compact, 5-track album. Unity is all about urgency and high energy, leaving precious little space between Dunmall’s weaving sax (alto on track 1, tenor on 2 [...]
The Secret Handshake is practically dripping with raw free-improvisation live energy; this is an album suited to a heavy atmosphere and the awed silence of half-empty rooms in unlikely places. Whether holed up above a London pub – where the two-track [...]
Lou Paley is one of the co-founders of Women in Jazz, a multimedia organisation dedicated to addressing the gender imbalance in the jazz industry by supporting fantastic female artists. Dan Bergsagel spoke with her for LondonJazz News about their work, [...]
