1 day ago
Interview with Salvador Sobral: New Album & Jazz Thoughts

Interviewer Marta Ramon  Feature photo © Sergio Lacedonia Salvador Sobral is not a singer but a voice instrumentalist who loves to explore creativity through porous jazz limits. This lively interpreter has domesticated his fame in order to bring to big audiences the real feel of what’s swinging with freedom and no concerns really feels like! [...]

1 day ago
Maria Schneider add’s another award to her tally

Editors note: Maria Schneider continues to add awards to her we deserved tally.  Each year, in the USA, the National Endowment for the Arts bestows the nation’s highest honor in jazz – the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships – on individuals who have made significant contributions to the art form. The award is usually given late [...]

2 days ago
Ghent Jazz Festival: Successful mix of Jazz and Pop

Ghent Jazz Festival 2018 attracted 32,000 visitors, and it continues to grow. This is roughly equivalent to the number of enthusiasts who visited the famous 13th century Abbey complex in the Belgian city last year. There were seven festival days this year in the period from June 29th till July 8th. Festival director Bertrand Flamang [...]

3 days ago
Raised on Jazz – inheriting music as a tool for survival

Editors note: Miriam Gould is the daughter of the Jazz Singer Rachel Gould and Jazz singer/Jazz Tenor sax player Sal Nistico. Below, Miriam’s gives some background and an overview on her new one woman show, with many good reasons to go and see it in person.    This is a personal account of how music [...]

4 days ago
NEA Announces Newest Recipients of the USA’s Highest Honor in Jazz.

Each year, the United States National Endowment for the Arts bestows their highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, on individuals who have made significant contributions to the art form. last week, the NEA is announced the four newest recipients of this lifetime honor. The recipients are Bob Dorough, Abdullah Ibrahim, Maria Schneider, [...]

7 days ago
Love Supreme 2018 – Sun, décolletage and plenty of music!

This year the Love Supreme Festival was a rather different one on so many levels. First of all, the stunning weather played a part into the success of this Festival which started in 2013 and is growing every year. Attending the Festival only on the Saturday this year due to other pre-scheduled work commitments, it [...]

8 days ago
Ghost Town video from Beverley Beirne’s album Jazz Just Wants To Have Fun

The Specials original pop song from 1981 – ‘Ghost Town’ is reinterpreted by Beverly Bierne and is one of the tracks on her newly released album ‘Jazz Just Wants To Have Fun’. This second in a series of video stories is set on location in London and The 606 Club. Beverley arrives with her band [...]

10 days ago
Bob James to release new solo album

August 31 will see the release of the new album from multiple-Grammy winner Bob James. Titled “Espresso” and released on the Evosound label, the album will be Bob James’s first studio recording in 12 years as leader and following up on his 2006 release Urban Flamingo. The release of this album also see’s Bob James’s [...]

11 days ago
Barrett Martin Interview by Fiona Ross

The drummer, percussion, composer, ethnomusicologist Barrett Martin has played on many Rock, Blues and World Music albums and last year won the Latin Grammy for producing Brazilian singer-songwriter Nando Reis’ album ‘Jardim-Pomar’. He has played with Mad Season, REM, Screaming Tress, Queens of the Stone Age and the Blues legend CeDell Davis to name just [...]

14 days ago
Gig Review: Keyon Harrold, jazz trumpeter par excellence play’s Ronnie Scott’s

The heart and soul of Keyon Harrold, jazz trumpeter par excellence and political activist, spill on the Ronnie Scott’s stage with great passion. At the time of writing, Keyon Harrold will have played his 3 main show gigs at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in Soho, London. I attended the first night where a mixed audience [...]