Singer Zara McFarlane, the festival’s director, and our jazz critic choose their five unmissable concerts from this year’s festival, which begins on 10 November Continue reading… Read entire story.
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Singer Zara McFarlane, the festival’s director, and our jazz critic choose their five unmissable concerts from this year’s festival, which begins on 10 November Continue reading… Read entire story.
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(Motema)You hear a lot of 20th-century jazz history in New Jersey drummer Mark Guiliana – often tweaked by plenty of 21st-century electronics and dance grooves. Guiliana (who played on David Bowie’s Blackstar) can sound as metronomic as a drum machine, but can also readily soar on the … Read entire story.
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(Palmetto)There’s no such thing as a casual listen to a Fred Hersch recording. Diving into the American pianist/composer’s work is no cold shower, though, but a trip into an enchanting world of teeming melodies, rich colours and criss-crossing stories. Like Keith Jarrett and Brad Mehldau, Hersch … Read entire story.
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(Border Community)James Holden is an Oxford University maths graduate turned DJ, producer and synth wizard who made his name with a suitably cerebral variety of Aphex Twin-inspired rave music. In the last decade, he’s forsaken DJing to front a live band that mixes minimalism, astral jazz and the … Read entire story.
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Vortex Jazz Club, LondonThe Philadelphia pianist’s jazz-classical crossover takes plenty of liberties with much loved tunes but never loses sight of their enduring magicThe pure of heart used to sniff at jazz-classical crossovers as tending to be more interesting than successful, but, over two decades, US pianist … Read entire story.
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