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...
Oud player and vocalist Dhafer Youssef is today considered to be one of the most inventive players on the world music scene and a leader of the movement fusing Eastern and Western...
The Times of London referred to Ben Sidran as “the world’s first existentialist rapper”. I agree… Ben Sidran has been a major force in the modern day...
Editors Note: Check out our “Nothin’ but the Blues” Spotify playlist to hear this and other iconic tracks from the legends of Blues. Albert Collins , know as...
“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...
Following the runaway success of this year’s Love Supreme Jazz Festival, the organisers have announced the launch of Love Supreme At The Roundhouse, a one-day festival taking...
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...
The biggest-ever celebration of jazz from the Netherlands in the UK and Ireland sees two of Europe’s most creative and exciting ensembles touring to venues in Nottingham,...
Sunday 29 October, in the city centre of Breda the tenth Swing Festival will be held. This year there are four free concerts in three venues in the Dutch city. A tradition is the...
Jason Moran has become one of the most prominent jazz pianists on the scene (born 1975 in Houston, Texas). He is also a composer, an artist, curator and a MacArthur Genius grant...
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...