This set of rare and rather amazing soul classics has a lot going for it straight out of the gate. To start with, it comes courtesy of Ace Records, a magnificent label to be celebrated for its lovingly curated compilations, [...]
Amina Claudine Myers is one of those rare musicians where the music of the blues, gospel and jazz stretching out at its most adventurous is in the blood, and this came over no better than in her solo live performance [...]
Peggy Harvey (widow of Eddie Harvey) and Alec Dankworth (son of Sir John Dankworth) presented the winners of the Dankworth Prizes for Jazz Composition and the Eddie Harvey Jazz Arranger of the Year Award with their prizes at a ceremony [...]
Like the recent release of McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson’s ‘Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’ from 1966, Freddie Hubbard’s 1967 date at Sylvia Robinson’s Bronx club, the Blue Morocco, is a superior recording that wholly deserves its belated disinterment. [...]
Welsh-born, Amsterdam-based saxophonist and composer Alice Leggett is touring in the UK. Her debut album ‘Birdsong’ will be released in May on ZenneZ Records. Feature by Tara Minton. “Where is home?” It’s a question all too familiar to so many [...]
One of the great early artistic successes of the ECM catalogue and a foundational text for contemporary solo jazz piano, Chick Corea’s ‘Piano Improvisations Vol 1’ (and come to that, Vol 2, which hasn’t been added to this Luminessence vinyl [...]
The alchemy of top-flight groups seen at close quarters really is a miraculous thing. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing John Patitucci, and he talked about his memories of more than two decades with the Wayne Shorter quartet, and [...]
Today’s news from Hamburg is something special for British jazz: “British bandleader, pianist and composer Nikki Iles will be the new Principal Conductor of the NDR Bigband from the 2025/26 season. She succeeds Geir Lysne and will lead the renowned [...]
Joy seems in short supply at the moment. But one place you’re sure of finding it is on a Hiromi album, and the new goods news, a new one is on the way, out this Friday 4 April. Every time [...]
Congratulations to Jamie Cullum and producer Folded Wing. Jamie’s BBC Radio 2 show is 15 years old this week, and tonight (1 April 2025) there is a 15th anniversary edition. Jamie, who has been supportive of UKJN since we started, [...]
From playing keys with the all-conquering afrobeat inflected London party band that is Ezra Collective, to being a regular collaborator of Nubya Garcia and others, Joe Armon-Jones has become an inescapable presence in UK jazz and for good reason too. [...]
In 2019, singer, pianist, bandleader, presenter, producer, and educator Robin Phillips went on a road-trip on a Harley Davidson motorbike. His goal was “to retrace the path of jazz and blues in America, from Chicago to New Orleans”. It was [...]
London-born pianist of Barbadian and Vincentian descent Sultan Stevenson’s second album El Roi is styled as an artistic statement, musically conveying the estimable twenty-four-year-old’s thoughts and emotions around concepts of faith and identity. ‘El Roi’ means ‘God of Sight’, one [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and saxophonist Matthew Muñeses with harpist Riza Printup. Their new album, Pag-Ibig Ko Vol. 1, will be released 4 April via Irabbagast Records. Links to both artists’ websites can be [...]
Kinan Azmeh is a Syrian-born, Brooklyn-based clarinetist and composer who has gained international recognition for his distinctive voice across diverse musical genres. He brings his music to all corners of the world as a soloist and commissioned composer with leading [...]
Brunhild Ferrari, a significant – and until recently unsung – pioneer of Musique Concrète, has been gaining recognition in the past decade as a composer in her own right. Brunhild Meyer (b.1937) was drawn in to the realm of cutting [...]
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