It’s been more than a year since performers and a live audience have set foot in the legendary Pizza Express Live venue in Dean Street with its classic red pillars and indigo ambiance, but it feels like no time has [...]
Toulouse Lautrec has been back in full swing for a few weeks now with everything from burlesque to singer-songwriters to life drawing classes, but most of all they’ve been hosting some of the best jazz groups that have either been [...]
Jazz On A Summer’s Evening at Cadogan Hall, presented by the Hampstead Jazz Club, finally came to fruition on Saturday 5th June. A long anticipated gig originally scheduled for December of last year, it was exciting to finally be able [...]
To celebrate the launch of the limited edition reissue, on Cafe OTO’s OTORUKU label, of Collected Solos, the original 1989 box set compilation of 4 Incus LPs and a cassette, Evan Parker performed solo sets of remarkable, undiluted intensity and [...]
It’s so good to be back seeing live music. This was the first event I’d been to since February 2020, and it was a special occasion too: the opportunity to see the debut of a fine singer – who has [...]
Camden Town on a Saturday night was an experience many had been missing over the last year and a half and, on this occasion, the Jazz Cafe was the place to be. The addition of tables and chairs has changed [...]
Whereas there has been music coming from the 606 – the Chelsea club has been broadcasting a couple of live streams each week throughout the pandemic – last night, 20 May 2021, saw a significant event: the return of a [...]
One of the few good things to come out of the global pandemic has been the accessibility of live streams. Whilst it might not be up there with revolutionary vaccine technology, the ability to see musicians play in New York [...]
Review of a live concert at Unterfahrt. English version (*) first, then Ralf Dombrowski’s original German Tours these days aren’t what they used to be. Lionel Loueke has been able to organise four concerts in Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Barcelona, and [...]
Canadian Lorne Lofsky (b.1954) is a name that guitarists of all persuasions, over the last four decades, have consistently held in awe for his extensive harmonic and melodic language which, at times, has his guitar sounding almost like a piano. [...]
