The full-hearted roar of a capacity audience in Theater Regensburg is something special. The theatre is a horseshoe-shaped opera house modelled after La Scala in Milan. It is at the heart of a cultural city with UNESCO world heritage status, [...]
honey from a winter stone is Ambrose Akinmusire’s second album on the Nonesuch label. The first, ‘Owl Song’, was an acclaimed album described as having ‘great beauty, haunting melody, heightened sensitivity’ (Philip Watson, The Irish Times). The music is almost [...]
Bedmakers is an occasional Anglo-French quartet of improvisers associated with the Toulouse based collective Freddy Morezon. They use the strapline “Tribute To An Imaginary Folk Band”. The album title, as well as meaning the mountain pass shown on the album [...]
On Portraits, his eighth album on the ACT label, violinist Adam Bałdych has formed an all-Polish quintet with tenor saxophone, piano, double bass and drums to play original compositions informed equally by jazz and contemporary classical chamber music. Bałdych was [...]
Double bassist/composer Avishai Cohen, one of the most celebrated jazz musicians touring the world right now, is about to hit the road again to showcase music from his new album, Brightlight, released last October on Believe. As Cohen explains, Brightlight [...]
