Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - Gwilym Simcock
- Friday, October 30, 2009
Meteor-like, Gwilym Simcock hit the jazz scene with a vengeance when he made an assured debut with Perception two years ago, devastatingly belying his newcomer status.
Features
Ronnie Scott's - Street Of Dreams
- Thursday, October 1, 2009
On 30 October Ronnie Scott’s is fifty years old, a remarkable feat for a jazz club set deep in the heart of a great, throbbing, constantly changing, capital city.
Keith Jarrett - Down But Not Out In Paris And London
- Thursday, October 1, 2009
Towards the end of last year and without much notice Keith Jarrett announced that he would perform two solo concerts in Paris and London.
Empirical - Take It Out
- Thursday, October 1, 2009
Empirical burst out of the gate just two years ago when out of nowhere and featuring a group of complete unknowns, their debut album won the coveted title of Jazzwise album of the year and a clutch of other awards.
Paul Clarvis - Percussion
- Friday, August 21, 2009
“I like old drums because they go pong rather than ping”, says Paul Clarvis.
Claire Martin - The Things I Miss The Most
- Friday, August 21, 2009
Claire Martin follows on from her Shirley Horn-inspired album from two years ago with A Modern Art featuring songs by Rodgers and Hart, and Cy Coleman which sees her build ever more strongly on her reputation as a classic jazz singer steeped in the traditions of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McRae.
Robert Glasper - The Range
- Friday, August 21, 2009
Robert Glasper returns this month with his third album for Blue Note.
Derek Nash - Saxophone
- Friday, July 31, 2009
“A combination of listening to a Sonny Stitt record that I had been lent by a friend of my dad’s and watching and listening to sax player Gary Cox recording ‘The Pink Panther Theme’ with the BBC NDO Big Band was what got me hooked on the sax.
Bugge Wesseltoft - Future Sounds
- Friday, July 31, 2009
Today, nu-jazz is perhaps a term that jazz fans and even the godfather of the genre Bugge Wesseltoft might well wince at.