Features

Zoe Rahman - Fascinating Rhythms

Multi-award winning pianist and composer Zoe Rahman has taken the solo route on her latest album, Dreamland, a personal journey of covers and rhythmically-charged originals.

Elliot Galvin - Puppet Masters

One of the exciting new generation of jazz musicians to emerge from Trinity Laban musical conservatory, Londoner Elliot Galvin has delivered a right-hook to the guts of jazz purists with his latest macabre offering, Punch.

Omar Puente – Fiddler On The Hoof

Dazzling Cuban expat violinist Omar Puente takes sizeably progressive steps on his latest eclectic longplayer, Best Foot Forward, an album dedicated to the memory of his late wife, Debbie Purdy, who continues to inspire and influence his work.

Dave Brubeck interview (nov 1998)

Interview ow in his seventy-eighth year, Dave Brubeck still recalls, with rueful amusement, the long, hard slog which preceded the eventual success of the quartet, and some of the misconceptions which still prevail about that climb to fame.

Kamasi Washington – Golden Age of the Get Down

Kamasi Washington’s audaciously ambitious triple-album The Epic was arguably the jazz event of last year, a launching pad for a continually ascending career trajectory that’s seen him win awards aplenty, wow audiences around the globe and even land a landmark gig at the BBC Proms this August.

Jasper Høiby - Wild Thing

Jasper Høiby’s Fellow Creatures, featuring horn-section stars Laura Jurd and Mark Lockheart, finds the Danish bassist pushing beyond the tightly-wound trio parameters of his work with Phronesis and into the realms of extended ensemble barrier-busting as heard on their newly released eponymous album.

Nikki Yeoh – Twin Passions

A brave choice, a musical epiphany and a near tragedy were the critical factors in the musical life of pianist and composer Nikki Yeoh.

Gregory Porter – street life

Singing sensation Gregory Porter has come a long way since the UK release of his debut album, Water, in 2011 and his first ever worldwide front cover in Jazzwise in March 2012.

Jack DeJohnette – Perpetual Motion

For his latest trio work, In Movement, drum doyen Jack DeJohnette has drawn upon old family ties to conjure a distinctly contemporary-sounding conversation.

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