Norman&Corrie are Norman Wilmore and Corrie Dick. They’ve been working together for a while; for this duo project, they’ve trawled the archives of Wilmore’s native Shetland for a wealth of folk tunes which they’ve arranged, deconstructed and made entirely their [...]
Beneath a large dome in a square room – the former home of the Limelight Club in Shaftesbury Avenue – this was a highly intimate show. Performed in the round in the centre of the audience, the quartet facing each [...]
A few rippling chords, a skipping bass pedal note, the caress of a cymbal is all took to set up a viscerally grooving pulse. Guest-with-the-trio tenor-man Mark Lockheart eased in with a breathy, sighing phrase to kick off Beatrice, ‘This [...]
A couple of months ago, Livia Records issued The Dublin Concert, a previously unreleased live recording of Louis Stewart with Jim Hall in 1982. Livia has now released another album of the great Irish guitarist in a guitar duo setting: [...]
The Down for the Count Swing Orchestra will be touring with Swing Into Christmas! until 28 December, bringing its own brand of festive musical cheer to audiences across the UK. Mike Paul-Smith, its musical director, spoke to UK Jazz News [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator Isaiah Collier. Collier’s second album of 2024, The World is On Fire, was released on 18 October. Like its immediate predecessor, The Almighty, The World is [...]
There’s newly discovered music by the great jazz pianist Bill Evans coming on Record Store Day this year, November 29th. That’s the release date for Bill Evans in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert – on the Elemental Music label. Recorded at [...]
Naomi Moon Siegel is an American trombonist, improviser, composer, and educator. Her original musical vocabulary draws on the richness of a variety of global musical traditions and the sonorities of the natural world. Naomi explores the trombone as a vehicle [...]
