St. Andrew’s Church, Grinton. 2 June 2024. Swaledale Festival.Framed by a grand archway lit in blue and purple, it took only a few notes from guitarist Martin Taylor, playing solo, to have the crowd under his spell. Opening with Neal [...]
‘We’re going to be playing some tunes from our new album as well as some tunes from our earlier albums’. Having opened proceedings with this statement, Fergus McCreadie followed up by telling the sell-out audience that he couldn’t say which [...]
St Ann’s church is an established festival venue for Manchester Jazz Festival and the concert by Trish Clowes and Ross Stanley continued this tradition as the only concert taking place there in the 29th festival. The great acoustic of the [...]
There was an almost tangible air of excitement before last night’s concert by the Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra at the Royal Northern College of Music as part of the 29th Manchester Jazz Festival. The concert had originally been scheduled to [...]
For the last couple of years, bass guitarist Ben Crosland has been promoting occasional gigs at the charming St. Stephen’s Church in Lindley, close to his Huddersfield home; on Saturday night it was the turn of John Etheridge Trio North [...]
Liverpool-based vocalist Ni Maxine and her quintet performed to a capacity crowd on 21 April at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall’s Music Room. The programme – entitled Ode To Billie Holiday – included no fewer than ten songs associated with Lady [...]
Neil Hughes, Jazz Director at the Buxton International Festival talks about his approach to programming the festival this year, and picks four personal highlights. It’s an interesting conundrum…how DO you follow up from 2023’s “Wynton Marsalis at the Opera House”…? [...]
Swedish singer Rebecka Edlund sat in the glow of countless fairy lights, flanked by Lancashire cellist Phoebe Harty and Yorkshire violist Cori Smith on either side. The three of them seemed to read one another’s minds, as they spun trance-like [...]
This concert felt like a twinning of fiftieth anniversaries: Sheffield Jazz Club will be celebrating its own birthday in May (details below) so it was a friendly, community-minded gesture to invite Doncaster Jazz Alumni to Sheffield Jazz Club in the [...]
The full programme for the manchester jazz festival (mjf) is announced, and tickets are on sale. CEO and Artistic Director Steve Mead notes: “mjf is acknowledged for championing northern talent, under-the-radar artists and debuts of new music, as well as [...]
