Day: 1 November 2018

1 November 2018

Live Review: Yussef Dayes at The Haunt, Brighton

Yussef Dayes The Haunt, Brighton Wednesday 26th September, 2018   The bouncer outside is busy checking ID and handing out wristbands to those lucky enough and old enough to buy booze legally; inside the system is playing trap to entertain the packed out crowd. The keys and bass players appear first and, after a short […]

1 November 2018

Live Review: Jazz In The Round at Emergence Festival, Hastings

Jean Toussaint, Chiminyo, Arthur O’Hara Trio Jazz In The Round at Emergence Festival, St. Mary in the Castle, Hastings Saturday 29th September, 2018   Jazz In The Round promoters Chris Phillips and Jez Nelson must have scoured the South in their search for suitably-shaped venues to accommodate their expanding vision; St Mary’s In The Rock, […]

1 November 2018

Live Review: Jazz Jamaica All Stars at Brighton Dome

Jazz Jamaica All Stars Brighton Dome Concert Hall Saturday 29th September, 2018   The relationship between jazz and reggae was for a while a rare combination, until the breakthrough of Jamaican jazz guitarist and visionary Ernest Ranglin, whose fresh approach saw a revolutionary breakthrough towards the fusion of Jamaica’s national music with the technical aspects […]

1 November 2018

Live Review: Eastbourne Splash Point Jazz Festival

Eastbourne Splash Point Jazz Festival The Fishermen’s Club, Christ Church and Leaf Hall, Eastbourne Sunday 30th September, 2018   Splash Point Jazz’s inaugural jazz festival in Eastbourne saw 12 different bands performing across 3 separate venues. The largest venue of the festival, Christ Church, hosted Festival Director Neal Richardson’s Band who performed a number of […]

1 November 2018

Live Review: Joe Armon-Jones at Patterns

Joe Armon-Jones Patterns, Brighton Wednesday 10th October, 2018   The new London jazz scene, recently featured in the New York Times, is all about the live experience and this is something that Mr. Bongo is bringing to Patterns in Brighton over the next few months. Ezra Collective’s pianist Joe Armon-Jones, on his return to Brighton, […]

1 November 2018

Live Review: Terry Riley at Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival

Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival: Terry Riley St. Luke’s Church, Brighton Monday 8th October, 2018   Celebrating its third successful year, Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival was fortuitous enough to have some of the biggest names in contemporary music listed on its programme. As sunset hit the high gothic points of the magnificent venue that is St […]

1 November 2018

Live Review: Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival at St. Luke’s Church

Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival: Adam Fairhall, David Birchall/Andrew Cheetham/Julie Kjaer/Hannah Marshall, Laura Jurd’s Dinosaur, Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Peter Brötzmann & Full Blast, Irreversible Entanglements St. Luke’s Church, Brighton Saturday 13th October, 2018   Still illuminated from the previous week’s performance of legendary composer Terry Riley, St Luke’s Church had the enormous honour of […]

1 November 2018

Album Review: Gabrielle Ducomble – Across the Bridge

Gabrielle Ducomble Across the Bridge (MPG Records – mpgcd020)   Ducomble studied jazz at Guildhall; previous releases featuring the likes of Gilad Atzmon and Chris Garrick have established her on the UK jazz circuit, and she’s appeared alongside Jacqui Dankworth and Tina May as part of the Jazz Diva series, and as part of Georgia […]

1 November 2018

Album Review: Elliot Deutsch – Make Big Band Great Again

Elliot Deutsch Make Big Band Great Again (self-release)     Although in some quarters, jazz has been regarded as a subversive form of music, big band music has not been considered as a vehicle for protest. Until now.  When he started to write this album, Elliot’s original plan was to pay tribute to his hometown, […]

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