South Coast Jazz Festival Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-by-Sea Saturday 20th – Saturday 27th January, 2018 The South Coast Jazz Festival kicked off its 4th year with The Jazz Repertory Company performing 100 Years of Jazz in 99 Minutes. In the pre-concert Q&A, drummer and bandleader Richard Pite quoted jazz writer Whitney Balliett who […]
Gwilym Simcock & Yuri Goloubev St. George’s Church, Hove Wednesday 9th July, 2014 Those who have heard the album Reverie at Schloss Elmau would have known what to expect from this duo: lots of virtuosity and ingenious playing. Critics of Gwilym Simcock often argue that his technical virtuosity overshadows any emotional […]
Russian virtuoso bassist Yuri Goloubev speaks to editor Charlie Anderson about his love of jazz. Tell me a bit about how you started in music. “Well, I grew up in it. My mum had graduated as a pianist even though she didn’t work much in that realm. She was a music journalist for […]