Early on in Andrew McCormack’s set on the last Friday of the London Jazz Festival, electricity seemed to crackle in the air and the thought ‘this is going to be a good night’ flashed across the mind of this listener. [...]
Wangaratta is the second release this year showcasing a collaboration by Czech composer and pianist Emil Viklický. Between Us, reviewed HERE was a duo set with fellow Czech and reedsman Pavel Hrubý. Wangaratta is a live trio recording from the [...]
It’s twenty years since the Marcin Wasilewski Trio debuted with ECM, on the first of a series of albums with Tomasz Stańko. There have been half a dozen under their own name since then as well. The most recent, released [...]
A poignant reflection concludes the liner notes for this live recording from 2018 of Chick Corea’s Akoustic Trio. The two sets on this double CD marked the first gig in a tour for the line-up of Corea, John Patitucci and [...]
Pianist and composer Tim Richards has been performing and composing for bands on the British jazz scene for well over 30 years. Parallel to the journey as a working musician has been a flourishing profile as an educator and author [...]
A piano trio album subtitled Song for Keith Jarrett might conjure certain expectations, Jarrett’s Standards Trio is surely a defining bench mark for a sound and approach to playing collectively after all. Noah Haidu is his own man however, and [...]
The ‘sound of surprise’ is a description often attached to jazz since American writer Whitney Balliett used it in the early 60s. It sprang to mind as UKJazz News spoke to the Israeli-born pianist Roy Mor about his debut release [...]
This brace of recent releases from two different bands were recorded 13 years apart, Reimagining the Beatles just before the time of COVID and Live in Rome in 2006. The connecting thread is London-based pianist Jonathan Gee who occupies the [...]
