Nigel Price Organ Trio Heads & Tales Volume 2 Whirlwind WR4695 The term ‘journeyman’ is often employed by jazz critics as a means of damning with faint praise, implying a musician who has achieved basic competence but is unable to inspire any higher feelings in his audience. In its original sense, it referred […]
Images of Jazz Brian O’Connor With a foreword by bassist/jazz club owner Peter Ind, this book features over 400 photographs taken over the course of nearly 50 years at more than 60 venues across Britain. Photographer Brian O’Connor has been photographing jazz musicians since the early 1970s and is also a regular […]
Gareth Lockrane’s Grooveyard 23rd September 2016 The Verdict, Brighton Gareth Lockrane is in town tonight with a bag full of new tunes and a cohort of old friends to play them with. To set the scene, he opens with Put The Cat Out from the original Grooveyard album – a skittish, blues-y waltz […]
Art Themen & Andy Panayi Splash Point Jazz Eastbourne Wednesday 28th September It’s always nice to see a new jazz club opening, so it was a pleasure to be in at the start of Splash Point Jazz Club Eastbourne, which has found a home in the Fishermen’s Club, just a pebbles throw […]
Ashley Henry Trio The Verdict Brighton 29th August 2016 Ashley Henry is in town as part of the New Generation season, to promote his LP 5ive, recently released on Jazz:refreshed, and he’s brought along the bass and drum team of Sam Vicari and Sam Gardner who backed him on the record (Verdict regulars […]
The Bopped and The Bopless Benet McLean McLean is a true polymath; pianist, guitarist, vocalist, violinist, writer, arranger and producer, he’s on a musical journey that’s included such diverse adventures as receiving mentoring from Yehudi Menuhin at the Royal College of Music and touring with Brit-soul legend Omar. This album presents him unleashing […]
Dream Maps Philip Clemo Scottish born and Sussex resident Clemo has a truly international CV, having lived and worked across Europe and as far afield as Sydney, and his musical horizons are equally broad. This album presents a series of highly evocative soundscapes, built up from layers of processed or natural sounds from […]
Love Supreme Festival Glynde Place, near Lewes Friday 1st July-Sunday 3rd July Friday evening began with a number of local bands performing at both the Bandstand and the Arena tent, with the unique sound of Leroy Horns’ Barnacles being well received along with the grooving Ezra Collective displaying their youthful virtuosity. If […]
Victor Wooten The Komedia, Brighton Tuesday 5th July 2016 A queue stretching down the street outside the venue showed that Stanley Clarke’s appearance at Love Supreme Festival on the preceding Saturday night had whetted rather than blunted local appetites for fusion bass wizardry. Victor Wooten got straight down to business, taking to the […]
Peter Fraize Facts & Figures Peter Fraize, tenor saxophone; Paul Pieper, guitar; Jon Ozment, piano; Nathan Kawaller, bass; Leland Nakamura, drums Union Records URCD -11 Washington DC-based tenorman Fraize turned some heads on his recent visit to the UK’s South Coast, especially with his appearance at Love Supreme Festival, but his name […]