The Pavilion Cafe Bar in Worthing has announced a new series of monthly jazz concerts beginning in October with artists that include Robert Fowler, Allison Neale, Colin Oxley, Winston Rollins, Jo Fooks and Jacqui Hicks. Splash Point Jazz Festival in Eastbourne have announced that they will be supporting local children’s charity Chestnut Tree […]
Love Supreme Festival Glyne Place, Sussex Friday 30th June – Sunday 2nd July, 2018 Friday at Love Supreme has usually been relaxed and laid back and this year was no exception. Vocal trio Three Little Birds set the tone with a nice relaxed vibe. This was followed by the equally relaxing and enjoyable […]
Brainchild Festival Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum, East Sussex Friday 13th – Sunday 15th July, 2018 For a festival with a limit of 2,000 people, one would expect it to be small and cliquey but it was the opposite: inclusive with no VIP areas, no commercial sponsorship and using a small space to maximum […]
Mark Kavuma & ‘The Banger Factory’ The Verdict, Brighton Friday 20th July, 2018 New Generation Jazz have had a consistently excellent programme of presenting up and coming musicians on the current jazz scene and Mark Kavuma’s band were no exception. Performing original material from the young trumpeter’s debut album, Kavuma, the band displayed […]
Dave Holdsworth’s New Brew Wodgi (Capton Records 01) Dave Holdsworth will be a familiar name to many jazz fans around the Brighton area as he regularly performed with Charlotte Glasson and Liane Carroll, as well as having his own quartet with Joe Robinson, Nigel Thomas and Dave Trigwell. Now relocated to Devon, his […]
Jazz Re:freshed began in 2003 as a weekly live music event but soon grew into a larger arts organisation that helps promote the younger generation of jazz artists through educational work, a record label and its annual summer festival, Jazz Re:Fest which comes to Brighton Dome on Sunday 22nd July. SJM Editor Charlie Anderson spoke […]
Trumpeter Yazz Ahmed is half-Bahraini and half-English, her dad being from Bahrain where Ahmed lived until she was 9 years old. “When I moved to London, I felt that I left that part of my heritage behind and adapted to British life, British culture.” But it was in England that her interest in the […]
How did you first get into jazz? The short story is that I started to study rock guitar, and my teacher started to play some jazz to me because he wanted me to develop, take a new direction and learn a little bit more about music. I also had good friends that were good […]
SJM editor Charlie Anderson spoke to pianist Jack Stephenson-Oliver ahead of his appearance at this year’s Jazz Re:Fest with Vels Trio. How did you first get into playing piano? Five years ago, when I was living in Brighton, I was playing guitar at the time and started playing a bit of gypsy jazz. […]
The Under Ground Theatre in Eastbourne has now closed for the near future as the lease, which expired back in 2016 but was renewed on a monthly basis, has been put out to tender by East Sussex County Council. This comes at a time when venues across Britain are under threat, with The […]