Jazz
Kit Downes: Light from Old Stars - review
A meeting with a Nasa astrobiologist led to these intricate but surprisingly bluesy musings on the conundrum of stargazing at what isn't there any more, hence the title.
Robert Mitchell: The Glimpse - review
(Whirlwind) The British pianist Robert Mitchell came to wider notice in 2002 when the BBC jazz awards made him a Rising Star, but he had been imparting an original spin to diverse sources, from European classical music to funk, hip-hop and Herbie Hancock
Paul Motian: Paul Motian - review
(ECM) A six-CD set of Motian's work for ECM from 1972 (when he blossomed into a bandleader after years as a game-changing drummer for Bill Evans, Paul Bley and others) to 1984, when saxophonist Joe Lovano and guitarist Bill Frisell began a two-decade cre
Kurt Elling - review
Ronnie Scott's, London Kurt Elling is in residence at Ronnie Scott's, though his reputation as one of jazz's all-time great vocalists means that only theft or bribery could now secure a ticket for anyone who has just woken up to it. A singer of asto
Live at Campus West - Chris Biscoe Profiles Quartet
The quartet with Tony Kofi, Larry Bartley and Stu Butterfield set out to explore innovations brought to jazz by Eric Dolphy, a remarkable virtuoso who combined many of the virtues of bebop and earlier jazz forms with an open-mindedness matched by few othe
Red Skies - Brigitte Beraha, John Turville, Bobby Wellins
Vocalist Brigitte Beaha and pianist John Turville have both been receiving growing recognition as musicians and bandleaders in their own right, and this collaboration was a naturalm result of a long friendship and a deep musical understanding that comes a
Jazz Divas: Jacqui Dankworth - Cadogan Hall
Jacqui Dankworth is considered to be ‘one of the classiest acts in British jazz singing’ (The Guardian). Her highly acclaimed recordings to date have been stylistically diverse, incorporating elements of folk, blues and many other forms that have demo
Kurt Elling, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, review
Jazz singer Kurt Elling's voice was astonishing at Ronnie Scott's, says Ivan Hewett.Kurt Elling: 1619 Broadway - Ronnie Scotts
GRAMMY winner Kurt Elling is among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. He has won every DownBeat Critics Poll for the last thirteen years and has been named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association eight times in that same span