Italian pianist and composer Enrico Pieranunzi, has just released another CD with large ensemble for Challenge Records – Chet Remembered. Teamed up with Belgian trumpeter/arranger, Bert Joris and the exemplary Frankfurt Radio Big Band they weave together a moving and [...]
Australian multi-instrumentalist James Morrison is a force of nature. He was spellbinding with a “triple-threat” fusillade of artistry on trumpet, trombone and piano. Morrison – Honorary President of the Wigan International Jazz Festival – and his quartet wowed the capacity [...]
American Alto saxophonist Bob Martin, who lived in London from 1997 until 2012, has died recently at the age of 74. Fellow musicians Steve Fishwick, Mike Gorman, Frank Griffith and Jamie O’Donnell remember an inspirational figure with tributes. In sadness: [...]
Enrico Pieranunzi, a standout Italian pianist has just released a beautifully realised recording to add to his large output of work boasting eighty recordings. The CD includes seven John Lewis pieces, handled deftly by the trio which includes Luca Bulgarelli, [...]
The very sad news of 20th Century songwriter Burt Bacharach’s death at 94 has resonated strongly in the past few days. Born in Kansas City in 1928, the youthful Bacharach who resided in Kew Gardens, Queens in the 1940s regularly [...]
Jazz fans in the North-West of the UK will be elated to learn of the resurgence of the annual Southport Jazz Festival. Having weathered a three-year break it has happily resumed at the Grand Hotel. This year’s festival was a three-day [...]
Veteran NYC saxophonist Rich Perry’s 2022 CD Everything Happens showcases equally his talents and abilities as a composer and player. Perry states: “I’ve been enjoying this process of coming up with little ideas and then bringing them to my friends, [...]
The music and legacy of British saxophonist, flautist, vibist and composer/arranger, Tubby Hayes was in full flow at the Wigan Jazz Fest. Returning after a two-year break due to the pandemic, one could not imagine a more fitting band to [...]
American tenor saxophonist and composer Walt Weiskopf has released around 20 CDs in his own name. The latest, Introspection, was recorded in 2020-21, largely in Copenhagen. There were delays, etc, because of the CV19 pandemic, but the fruit of this [...]
Sebastian writes… The sad news has just reached us that saxophonist Willie Garnett passed away yesterday 15 October 2021. As one musician has just described him to me, “he was the nicest of us all.” As bandleader of his own [...]
