iG4 at the Watermill, June 2025. Clockwise from top left: Claire Martin, Nikki Iles, Karen Sharp and Ewan Hastie. Photos © Brian O'Connor There was a full house for ...

Four very different vocalists feature in this set of reviews, the first being Savina Yannatou, from Greece. She shares honours on Watersong with Tunisian singer Lamia Bedioui and the Primavera en ...

The group started with a swinging minor-key tune, Big Bertha by Duke Pearson. Vincent Herring took the first solo, employing a powerful attack and hard-driving lines. Catalan guitarist Joan Fort ...

They say : Pianist Cyrus Chestnut returns to HighNote with a superb new quartet recording. This highly anticipated album showcases Chestnut’s rhythmic precision, emotive touch, and improvisational ...

Born in Paris and raised in Scotland, Rebecca Vasmant has become an unofficial ambassador for contemporary jazz. Drawing deeply on personal experiences that have shaped her, Vasmant – a DJ producer as ...

Sam Coombes: Time Of Life (33Jazz Records) | Anouar Brahem: After The Last Sky (ECM 2838) | Mark Turner: We Raise Them To Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music LLM023) | AuB: Folk Devils (Whirlwind ...

The guitarist brought his trio featuring Bill Stewart and Vicente Archer to London for a jazz-focused set ahead of a brunch interview session with the UK's John Etheridge Scofield has said “I think ...

This one week festival was presented by the London Borough of Camden in association with the indefatigable Jazz Centre Society. Due to personal circumstances, I was only able to attend on two nights ...

Thorough, sympathetic biography of the singular, immediately recognisable US reedman and flautist details his musical dedication and the often dismissive critical reception he endured before his early ...

If you listen to jazz publicists you might be persuaded that the nominal boundaries between jazz and classical are only now being breached. But 60 years ago Mark Gardner heard Bill Le Sage effectively ...

Nicole Mitchell is a renowned flautist and former chair of the AACM. Ballaké Sissoko an innovative kora player from Mali. Both are esteemed composers and both have defied convention in their ...

This is one of the most approachable, impressionistic and mellifluous releases in the Discus catalogue, which is not to suggest that it lacks focus or drama, albeit mostly of a subtle kind. The ...