COOKUP, the latest batch from Sam Gendel, prolific multi-instrumentalist majoring in ‘saxofone’, is a microwave meal of an album that rewarms some of the most familiar earworms from the most recent couple of generations of RnB and neo-soul ballads through [...]
NB: Tour Dates imminent / listed below Collaborations 2020-2022 is a warm reminder of a moment when something genuinely new happened in the music. The global improvised music scene was forced indoors by the pandemic, and responded by creating the [...]
“I can see colours dancing in my head. I tried to capture that and put it on the screen,” explained multimedia artist Emile V. Schlesser (b.1986) at a special presentation of Synaesthesia, his immersive multimedia collaboration with Luxembourg post-rock jazz [...]
Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske’s performances are shamanic studies of physicality, vulnerability and endurance, made with just the body, breath, saxophone and space. Bendik’s two albums Surrender (2019) and Cracks (2021) are deep hauntological statements of appeal to diverse fans of [...]
The true finale to the 2022 London Jazz Festival was an evening of completely new music from the mind of New Jersey-born drummer, composer and bandleader Mark Holub, at his spiritual home in the newly refurbished Vortex Jazz Club. The [...]
UKJN provides the most extensive review coverage of the EFG London Jazz Festival. By far. This year we will have done over thirty of them. We have also asked our writers and other friends (*) to comment in brief on [...]
Adam Wakeman’s incendiary 2020 documentary “Before Black Sabbath: there was Jazz Sabbath”(LINK) broke a story that shocked the worlds of jazz and heavy metal, turning a half century of musical history on its head. It was the revelation that the [...]
You could call 2022 the “Chicago Edition” of the London Jazz Festival, a celebration of the creative relationship between Chicago and London, a longstanding exchange that has enriched each side. Headline concerts from Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, Matana Roberts, Makaya [...]
If you’re in Newcastle on a Sunday, you need to be at the Globe on Railway Street. Their Sunday night concerts boast some impressive programming. In spring 2022 Jazz North East presented a series including Joe McPhee and Steve Noble, [...]
Two writers, Peter Slavid and AJ Dehany, jointly covered the innovative 2022 NFoJaIM festival for UKJN. Links to their other reports below. “We do it to disrupt the machine” is a statement of liberational sensibility that exists in the continuum [...]
