In recent years, pianist and composer Lynne Arriale has produced music that reflects what she sees as the social turmoil and division now present in the world. Chimes of Freedom, from 2020, focussed on migration and refugees; 2022’s The Lights [...]
384,400 is an iconic number for stargazers who think in SI units. For old-school Imperial thinkers, it translates to 238,855. More pertinently for jazz fans, it’s the title of the new quartet album from Terence Collie. The pianist/composer, who also [...]
“50 Years” by the Doncaster Jazz Alumni, is released on Ubuntu Records. It marks 50 years of the Doncaster Youth Jazz Association, founded by John Ellis. Alumni playing on the album include Pete Beachill, Mark Ellis, Reuben Fowler, Sarah Potts, [...]
Christmas is almost here again and with it comes one of the highlights of the season for jazz fans and lovers of Christmas Carols alike, Jazz Carols from Methodist Central Hall Westminster [MCHW]. Saxophonist Dan Forshaw, who leads the event, [...]
The traditional twentieth anniversary gift is china – a few plates, maybe a cup and saucer or two. Modernists apparently prefer platinum, which seems like a far more appropriate way to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Jamie Cullum’s Twentysomething, first [...]
For the last few years, singer and songwriter Rebecca Poole was known as Purdy, developing a career that’s seen her support Jools Holland’s band on tour and perform “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” in the episode of The Crown [...]
This is stunning: an album so filled with beauty, emotional impact and hope comes round once in a blue moon, but Parchman Prison Prayer – Some Mississippi Sunday Morning is such an album. Despite the title, this isn’t by an [...]
What to write about this new release? First, the basics: She Walks is a four-track EP, coming in at just under 6 minutes 30 seconds and credited to an ensemble called Artificial Jazz – composer Chris Donnelly on piano, lyricist [...]
It’s not unusual to meet a church organist, a classical pianist, a jazz musician, an accompanist, or a DJ… what is unusual is to find them all in one person; Jonny Liebeck is such a person. Ahead of the release [...]
Vocalist Sienna Dahlen and guitarist Bill Coon, both experienced performers on the Canadian jazz scene, bring that experience to Balladextrous as they reimagine nine songs drawn from the American Songbook. The result is an immersive and often moving album, notable [...]
