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View ArticleThe memory lingers on: top three jazz albums Jan-April 2017
OK, a regular thing now, a sort of recap after the initial review is done and dusted to work out what albums are staying around that bit longer, the ones that just have got to be played again reaching...
View ArticleScott Flanigan and Kyron Bourke at the heart of Belfast jazz – Berts, Chet,...
Selected for Take 5, plucked from the often overlooked Belfast jazz scene to have blossomed since the much admired mentoring scheme was dreamt up, organist Scott Flanigan was in his regular trio spot...
View ArticleGrow the grassroots by granting more funding to the small venues
Grassroots venues need more support than the big concert halls. I’ve found more new small jazz clubs over the last year than at any time since I’ve been covering jazz gigs. I haven’t even been looking....
View ArticleIn your cinema soon
The UK and Ireland Phantom Thread cinema release is 2 February. Click to recall an earlier Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood collaboration in The Master.
View ArticleScott Flanigan and Kyron Bourke at the heart of Belfast jazz – Berts, Chet,...
Selected for Take 5, plucked from the often overlooked Belfast jazz scene to have blossomed since the much admired mentoring scheme was dreamt up, organist Scott Flanigan was in his regular trio spot...
View ArticleBuild your dreams to the stars above
Heard in Carmen Lundy’s band during the annus mirabilis that saw drummer-singer Jamison Ross win the Thelonious Monk prize, All for One on Concord will be released at the end of January and includes,...
View ArticleEnduring truths and wisdom
Read the Martin Luther King ‘I Have a Dream...’ 1963 speech and Ben Okri poem ‘Grenfell Tower, June, 2017’ on listening to the voice of Okri, above.
View ArticleElemental Rites jazz mixtape
Elemental Rites is a mixtape of contemporary jazz sounds premiered by Turn it On, ranging from accessible jazz vocals to the cutting edge of the avant garde and state of the art new styles, beginning...
View ArticleBuild your dreams to the stars above
Heard in Carmen Lundy’s band during the annus mirabilis that saw drummer-singer Jamison Ross win the Thelonious Monk prize, All for One on Concord will be released at the end of January and includes,...
View ArticleSongs of the flightless
The girl with the dragon tattoo, sat along the wall to the left in front of the stage, seemed to be enjoying GoGo Penguin, at least that’s what her smiles seemed to suggest. But the sustained general...
View ArticleSco and Lo to the fore
Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Bill Stewart and Larry Grenadier. Photo: John Scofield Facebook page Late-September sees the release of guitarist John Scofield's latest album a quartet affair called Past...
View ArticleToday... video / listening
A 23 February release: Darwish’s Reclamation, of which ‘This City’ is the sixth track, is on Two Rivers.
View ArticleBlack Box Brilliant Corners trio date on the horizon for JD Allen
JD Allen will be appearing with his trio on Wednesday 7 March at Brilliant Corners in Belfast the 2018 line-up of which has just been announced.
View ArticleNussbaum plays Lead Belly
A must-hear blues and folk loving 23 February release for The Lead Belly Project, new on Sunnyside from revered Impossible Gentlemen drummer Adam Nussbaum, is in the offing. The Lead Belly Project by...
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