Alto saxophonist Sam Braysher has a liking for the less familiar work of the American Songbook composers, a body of music that’s seldom performed in the twenty-first century and rarely heard played by jazz musicians. This doesn’t mean that it [...]
“We spend a lot of time as improvisers trying to be highly polished, but really a lot of the interesting music happens when things don’t work out the way you expect.” Saxophonist/composer Sam Norris’s debut album Small Things Evolved Slowly [...]
Back in the 1970s, around five years after they started performing, a group of young siblings from Aberdeen, Mississippi, known as the Staples Jr Singers despite being unrelated to the older and more famous Staples family, released their first album, [...]
Soon after graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama last autumn, with a Masters in Performance, vocalist and composer Grazina Pukaite released her debut recording, Small Sessions 1. She’s now preparing for a gig at the Bull’s Head [...]
Room for Dancing is the somewhat ambiguous title of pianist and composer John Crawford’s latest album. What does it mean? Was it recorded in a room usually reserved for dancing? Does the music leave room for dancing? It’s a puzzle, [...]
Sometimes, album and song titles make it pretty obvious what sort of sounds are going to be heard. Sometimes, things are less obvious. That’s the case with Lucien Johnson’s latest. Neither the album title, Ancient Relics, or track titles such [...]
There’s something of a resurgence in jazz harp at the moment.. On 7 May, Ben Creighton Griffiths brings his Cardiff-based ‘harp-led, electro-acoustic jazz fusion band’ Chube for its London debut at Pizza Express in Dean Street. On a Zoom call [...]
BBC Radio 3’s ‘Round Midnight, the new five-nights-a-week show starts on Monday 1 April. Soweto Kinch is the presenter. ‘Round Midnight, BBC Radio 3’s new late-night jazz show, produced by Folded Wing, begins its five-nights-a-week schedule on 1 April, making [...]
It’s been almost six years between composer, arranger and pianist Simon Lasky’s second album and his new release, For the Dreamers, which is out today on Ubuntu Music… The six years between these albums have been busy for the London-raised [...]
The GAB Album, recorded in one day at the Cowshed studio, is the debut album from The GAB Trio, a band that’s been playing live, mostly around London, for a couple of years. Guitarist, composer and bandleader Clement Regert is [...]
