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 […]
In jazz history, the period hailed as the Golden Era is rather a moveable feast – Dixieland purists and similar mouldy figs may insist that the title cannot be accorded any later than the onset of the Great Depression, William P Gottlieb appropriated it for his riveting collection of photographs from the 1930s and […]
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 […]
“2015 was a great year for jazz-and-related-musics in the Sussex area, and 2016 promises a range of delights to come.” “Pulling back the camera for a reveal of the bigger picture, 2015 saw no less than three jazz festivals touching down in the area.” “Let’s end with a wish-list. It […]
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 […]
Tori Freestone Trio El Barranco Tori Freestone, tenor sax, violin and vocals; Dave Manington, bass; Tim Giles, drums. Whirlwind Recordings WR4689 Freestone is rapidly carving out a career as an original voice on tenor, taking a highly personal pathway that skirts around such mutually exclusive territories as folk, free improv and the […]
As the nation descends into a period of what even the most jubilant Brexiters would have to acknowledge as extensive uncertainty, further polluted by an unwelcome residue of extremely bad feelings stirred up during the dishonest and divisive Referendum campaigns, it’s a relief to turn your weary gaze away from the news and realise […]