1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (146+ words) The second-show audience responded enthusiastically throughout, erupting with appreciative whoops whenever an especially daring fill or run landed. The final tune, with its gospel-inflected groove and bluesy warmth, brought the evening to an uplifting close. Fresh yet nostalgic, inventive yet…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (637+ words) UK Jazz News " formerly London Jazz News " was started as a blog by Sebastian Scotney in 2009, and has gone on growing ever since. It now involves a substantial team of contributors and helpers. The website publishes a daily "ow of…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (350+ words) UK Jazz News " formerly London Jazz News " was started as a blog by Sebastian Scotney in 2009, and has gone on growing ever since. It now involves a substantial team of contributors and helpers. The website publishes a daily "ow of…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (583+ words) UK Jazz News " formerly London Jazz News " was started as a blog by Sebastian Scotney in 2009, and has gone on growing ever since. It now involves a substantial team of contributors and helpers. The website publishes a daily "ow of…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago  (359+ words) Crazy, we just did that!" Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen was smiling at the end of Porgy and Bess", and walked over to the Guildhall Jazz Orchestra's two bassists, congratulating each of them in turn with a grateful fist-pump. This had been…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (255+ words) UK Jazz News " formerly London Jazz News " was started as a blog by Sebastian Scotney in 2009, and has gone on growing ever since. It now involves a substantial team of contributors and helpers. The website publishes a daily "ow of…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago  (362+ words) UK Jazz News " formerly London Jazz News " was started as a blog by Sebastian Scotney in 2009, and has gone on growing ever since. It now involves a substantial team of contributors and helpers. The website publishes a daily "ow of…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (915+ words) Monika Herzig has long tied her music to advocacy, whether through her 12-year-old all-female ensemble Sheroes or her academic work on gender and jazz. But Transparent comes from a more personal place. The pianist and composer began developing the album…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (147+ words) Echomyr is the fifth album that Swedish bassist/composer Lars Danielsson has made under the Liberetto banner, all of them exquisite chamber jazz steeped in European folk " and, since Liberetto III (2017), with a consistent line-up of Magnus "str'm (drums), Gr'gory…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (427+ words) Pianist/composer Alexander Hawkins" Willow Music, his set of compositions for or his top level, 11-piece ensemble saw him pushing at the edges of the envelope, or perhaps, more accurately, pushing at the boundaries of a flexible, elastic, sphere." This…...