9 hours ago
Aubrey Logan – Super tones, cartwheels and some fun, too.

So there was I sitting at my usual corner seat at the bar on Saturday night when Ms Logan steps on to the stage all dressed in white with a perfectly coiffed hairdo.   I was immediately intrigued. The gig opens with MC Hammer’s cover of “Can’t touch this” which, I have to admit, makes the [...]

1 day ago
Prince of Drums – Jojo Mayer/Nerve – Euro Tour.

Mayer, who was born in Zurich in 1963, lived an itinerant life as a child including a period of his youth in Hong Kong, but his musical career began in Switzerland, based in Ruschlikon, where at the age of 18 he joined legendary jazz pianist Monty Alexander’s group and toured the biggest jazz festivals in [...]

1 day ago
Featured Gig | Arik Strauss Trio, Club der polnischen Versager

During his stay in New York Arik performed regularly with top musicians, such as Ron McClure (contrabass), Akira Tana (drums), Shonzo Ono (trumpet) and Montigo Joe (percussions). During this period Arik was a mainstay of the New York club scene and led a regular session at Birdland. As an arranger Arik collaborated on a tribute [...]

2 days ago
Terence Blanchard To Release Live Album Featuring The E-Collective.

With a title that carries a pointed double meaning, the album is an impassioned continuation of the band’s GRAMMY-nominated 2015 studio recording, Breathless. Hear the lead track “Dear Jimi” now via NPR Music. The music of Live was symbolically culled from concerts performed at venues in three communities that have experienced escalating conflicts between law [...]

2 days ago
Shake Stew | Rise and Rise Again

Shake Stew released their highly anticipated new album „Rise And Rise Again“ (with Shabaka Hutchings as a guest on 2 tracks) on April 6 as well as kicking off an international touring marathon that will carry the band around the globe. Everywhere they’ve been so far, the press has been more than enthusiastic, often trying [...]

4 days ago
Interview: Pablo Ziegler, Jazz Tango and more.

Recent seasons have seen Ziegler performing at major venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Muziekgebouw ann het Ij (Amsterdam), Verbier Festival, Ravinia SF Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, the Ottawa International Jazz Fest, Tokyo Jazz Festival, Blue Note, Birdland and many others. Pablo’s 2017 release on Zoho Records “Jazz Tango won [...]

4 days ago
Featured Gig | Joe Locke and guests at Dizzy’s Coca-Cola Club.

Joe Locke is widely considered to be one of the lead voices on his instrument, winning numerous awards and polls, including multiple “Mallet Player of the Year” awards from the Jazz Journalists Association. Long known as a soloist capable of stunning physical power and broad emotional range, Locke has performed and recorded with many notable [...]

6 days ago
Jason Miles, Observations from the road part 2

In part 1 of Jason’s article he covers the first part of the tour up to his two night stint at Paris’s Duc Des Lombards and here in Part 2 we pick it up at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris about to board a flight to London for his gig at Ronnie Scott’s. Enjoy [...]

6 days ago
Young pianist’s journey takes him to a four-night run

A graduate of internationally regarded saxophonist Tommy Smith’s youth jazz orchestra and currently studying on the jazz course that Smith oversees at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, McCreadie has been making jazz audiences sit up and take note since winning the Young Scottish Jazz Musician Award (Under 17s) at the age of fifteen [...]

7 days ago
Latin Grammy nominated Snow Owl talks with Fiona Ross

I was first introduced Snow Owl when I was invited to the London Bass Guitar Show a little while ago to meet him. During his masterclass he explained that when he first picked up the electric bass, he got an electric shock and even heard the military radio through the pickup. Literally, an explosive moment [...]