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“A Sardinian extravaganza” Filomena Campus

Filomena Campus Quartet ft Gavino Murgia @ Pizza Express – Soho – London As part of the 2016 EFG London Jazz Festival, Pizza Express in Soho, London, hosted the...

jazzahead! announces 2017 Gala Concert

By: Nigel J. Farmer | Photos (c) Oliver Reetz and ACT Gregor Hohenberg Last week, details of the opening gala concert for the 2017 edition of jazzahead! were announced. With...

Rob van Bavel and son Sebastiaan keep on exploring jazz

Rob van Bavel (1965) and his son Sebastiaan (1991) are gifted pianists. Considered as premiere jazz sons of the Netherlands. Both of them also have a penchant for classical...

CD Review | Arctic Blues Release November 25 – 2016

The Finnish iconic, 70 year old jazz saxophonist and composer Eero Koivistoinen has been on the Jazz scene for the last 50 years. Recently Eero once again teamed up and took the...

Featured Gig | Ola Onabule

Showtime 8pm. Only a 5 minute walk from Victoria Station in London. Ola Onabule’s distinct and highly identifiable style unites jazz, soul and world music. A superb...

Ahmad Jamal – One of A Kind

As one of the major architects of modern jazz piano, he has a gift for melody, broad and open harmonic palette, and astonishing rhythmic drive. “I’ve been around a long, long...

Featured Gig | Maciek Pysz – London Jazz Festival

As part of the EFG London Jazz Festival Maciek Pysz (guitar) makes a welcome return to Jazz Cafe Posk with his stellar Quartet to play compositions from his latest album ‘A...

Angus Bayley CD Review and Q&A.

“Scrapbook”, a 9-track album released in autumn this year on the Spark label, is the work of Angus Bayley, composer and musician as well as scientist!  All of the tracks but...

Alex Jønsson | release Nov 25

There is something deeply satisfying about witnessing an audience’s immersive expression when totally engaged with the music in a small space, if done well. I can’t think of a...

A French Jazz Shaman is Freed

Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a legendary jazz shaman on horns. As a soloist, he was capable of sounding like a full band by blowing hard and free into three alto saxophones at once,...

10 X Grammy Award Winner – Eddie Palmieri

Read this fascinating and insightful interview of the Ten-time Grammy winner pianist Eddie Palmieri. Eddie Palmieri who is known for his banging, percussive piano style says,...