By now you have probably heard about this film, which debuted in UK cinemas at the weekend and will move to Star on Disney+ at the end of the month. However I would urge you, if you can, to experience [...]
Rudy Van Gelder died in 2016 aged 91, the most famous resident of Englewood Cliffs, NJ, just across the Hudson River from the top end of Manhattan. His fame was of course a result of the studio he built there [...]
This eagerly-anticipated gig was massively over-subscribed, and it’s not difficult to see why. 23-year-old Londoner Deschanel Gordon has already scaled the heights: last year he not only won the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year but graduated from Trinity [...]
It’s not often you emerge from Ronnie Scott’s at the end of an evening gig to find that it’s still light outside (as opposed to dawn breaking). But such is the topsy-turvy world of live jazz these days, and after [...]
Always and Forever is the new album from jazz singer Jenny Green. It will be launched at the club which Jenny runs in East Grinstead on 1 July. UKJN: How did you meet Claire Martin, and why did you choose [...]
Fans of TV’s Fear the Walking Dead will be familiar with Rubén Blades’s work, as will anyone who saw the X-Files episode “El Mundo Gira”. Those with slightly longer memories may recall his role in Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues. [...]
Listeners to BBC Radio 4 may have heard Simon McBurney reading extracts from this book over recent days: it was chosen as the station’s Book of the Week. The Musical Human is a wildly ambitious attempt to cover the entire [...]
In our series in which musicians do a “deep dive” into the music of their inspirations, Peter Jones (*) writes about ten of his favourite tracks by singer Mark Murphy (1932-2015), distilled from nearly 50 albums’ worth of material: 1. [...]
It was a simple idea: why not record some old Wes Montgomery favourites and do them all in latin style? After all, Wes’s tunes are very often groove-based, lending themselves to a variety of rhythmic treatments. And it works beautifully. [...]
Peter Jones reviews two new releases on the new Italian label Space Echo, a sister label of Milan’s Schema Records. Tweets. Bird calls. That’s how this new release from Alessandro Meroli begins, with a track called Nightfall. Notturni is a [...]
