Album titles can be anything from poetic to enigmatic to downright baffling, but Chris Sansom‘s October release Unfinished Business gets straight to the point. It’s the long-postponed completion of a fascinating musical adventure, abandoned 50 years ago and brought back [...]
Germana Stella La Sorsa is an Italian London-based singer. She has performed at venues including Ronnie Scott’s and the Vortex Jazz Club, and at jazz festivals like Lebanon’s Al Bustan International Festival and the Ceglie Jazz Open Festival in Italy. [...]
Trumpeter/composer Chris Batchelor has assembled a group of top UK players to interpret the beautifully melancholic compositions of trumpeter Tomasz Stańko, from the early recordings such as Balladyna, through to the classic albums Dark Eyes, From the Green Hill and Litania, including Komeda’s iconic ballad ‘Sleep Safe [...]
Although not internationally known just yet, Playtime has become an institution in Edinburgh and, to a degree, in Scotland generally. Working under the strapline of Adventures in New Music, it began in April 2014 as a weekly live session where four of Scotland’s [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with saxophonist and composer Caroline Davis. Her new album, Portals, Volume 2 : Returning – released 20 September via Intakt Records – features her quintet in trumpeter Marquis Hill, pianist Julian Shore, [...]
