Since it was published in 1988, The New Real Book has sold over 100,000 copies, making it the best-selling legal fake book of all time. The man behind that venture, publisher and founder of Sher Music Co. Chuck Sher, has [...]
Last November, the Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra (TLJO) spent three nights celebrating the 85th birthday of composer/arranger Mike Gibbs (reviewed by Patrick Hadfield) as part of the 2022 EFG London Jazz Festival. Continuing on in a similar theme, they returned [...]
The Manchester-based Royal Northern College of Music is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. As part of the festivities, northern-based musicians Dave Hassell (drums) and Andy Scott (saxophone) have been invited to direct the big band for a night of [...]
35-year-old American bassist Michael Feinberg has been active as a leader of his own projects for most of a decade – putting out records featuring all-star players like George Garzone and Billy Hart. His latest release, Blues Variant showcases a [...]
Czech pianist/composer Emil Viklický has enjoyed a successful career over the past five decades, recording and performing with such names as Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and founding member of Weather Report, fellow Czech [...]
The jazz concert series at Morley College has now enjoyed two very successful seasons featuring the likes of Stan Sulzmann, Tori Freestone, Nikki Iles, Ivo Neame, Sara Dowling and Julian Siegel. Under the direction of Morley College head of jazz [...]
Saxophonist Martin Speake and pianist Alcyona Mick have both played in the London Jazz Orchestra for a decade. And yet, despite the fact that both musicians are accomplished, creative composers and performers, they have never worked together outside of LJO [...]
Swedish multi-instrumentalist Håkan Nyqvist was for many years an in-demand big band trumpeter, most notably with the James Last Orchestra – in fact, a semi-viral video making the rounds on social media of Derek Watkins performing Maynard Ferguson’s notoriously difficult [...]
American (now German-based) pianist Richie Beirach has enjoyed a career spanning five-plus decades, over the course of which he has played in the bands of Chet Baker and Stan Getz, been part of one of jazz’s most historic duos with [...]
Austrian drummer Bernd Reiter talks often of his love for the playing of bebop drummer Philly Joe Jones, which was made especially clear in his playing last night. In an interview with LondonJazz last year (link below), he explained how [...]
