Rating: 2017 gets garlanded by another beauty: Peter Horsfall’s elegant dark debut album “Nighthawks” (APP Records), 38 minutes and 25 seconds of musical poetry, an album...
Congas supremo, Snowboy, played two sold out dates at Ronnies last month. The gigs marked also a well deserved successful end of his UK tour. Snowboy and his Latin Section band...
As a writer and journalist, I consider myself lucky, indeed, I am very grateful to all the incredible musicians and artists who have allowed me in their homes, their dressing...
“Jazz is jazz because it is multi-faceted; it hurts, it stuns, it amazes. Filomena Campus’s music does all these things: always expect the unexpected!” I wrote the above...
With a very elegant blue suit, Christian Sands’ diminutive figure stepped out on the Ronnie Scott’s stage looking happy and eager to play another date to his international...
A famous and eclectic venue in North London holds the key to many successful concerts, whatever the genre, Kings Place in York Way, King’s Cross IS the place to visit. Every...
Anna Harwell Celenza’s book “Jazz Italian Style” published by CUP (Cambridge University Press) was published earlier this year and I was hooked. I need to clarify: this is...
A trio made out of Hong Kong via New York and then London. With creativity and verve, the project that is Trio Soundscapism, make jazz and improvisation sound so very easy. ...
Italian jazz fusion quartet Möbius Strip has had a mini album released a few months ago on French label Musea Records. On listening to the debut album that takes its name from...
This past week I was at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club to attend the private screening of a new documentary on jazz supreme saxophonist John Coltrane. The film, written and directed...
This week has been a rather legendary week for this writer. One day I was watching Woody Allen play in one of the most iconic venues that London can offer and another I was...