Waiting for the gig to start in Manchester’s International Anthony Burgess Centre, surrounded by images of the Clockwork Orange creator’s book jackets, the audience may have wondered about the connection between the eponymous venue and this ‘Celebrating Europe’ jazz festival double-bill.
It’s a Tuesday night in Brighton and an expectant crowd have assembled in Patterns nightclub to see Maisha embark on the first date of their belated album tour.
This was a wonderful set from the former Miles Davis and Billy Cobham guitarist, John Scofield, with a nod to all spheres of his musical development from angular bebop to Louisiana swamp shuffle and avant-blues.
Tonight’s proceedings are initiated by Laura Misch, who has imprudently got chilled to the bone while watching the sunset out on the beach.
Now aged 77, John McLaughlin has a lifetime of intriguing work to revisit.
Terry Riley is one of those few and far between composers whose oeuvre straddles Western minimalism (of which he is a founding father), Indian classical and jazz.
“I am the person I know best.
One night, two exciting young bands, at the Bridge Hotel in Newcastle.
Deep in Manhattan's West Village, where the New York jazz cats hang, lie venues such as Blue Note, Smalls, the Village Vanguard, and Zinc Bar.
“You just came here to keep warm, right?” quipped tenorist Wayne Escoffery well into the second set at NYC’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, on a blustery winter night in late February.
