The fact that he arrived onstage wearing an ornate Dracula cape, and was then ceremoniously introduced as "his Count Tainess" ...

Welcome back to my top five gig picks this month! We’ll be looking at some of the most exciting performances happening across ...

Anthony Braxton and his legacy dominated Day 1 of this year's JazzFest Berlin. At the pre-concert Artist Talk James Fei, ...

New York saxophonist/flautist Greg Abate’s exuberant music helped to celebrate the Juniper Green Note’s first birthday as a ...

Jazz Cafe Posk in King St near Hammersmith is such a welcoming year-round venue presenting a broad jazz programme, and it was ...

In the regular column which I have been writing for the German magazine JAZZTHETIK since 2015, I get the chance to write about a person or an aspect of the UK scene. Knowing, when I wrote this column ...

Welcome back to my top five gig picks this month! We’ll be looking at some of the most exciting performances happening across ...

Tonight Tuesday 13 October, at World Heart Beat in London, the winners of the 2026 All-Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards were announced. They included a new award, the Musicians’ Union Music Hubs and ...

This was a serendipitous couple of nights at Cafe Oto, about a week apart, showcasing the power of hardcore and beyond. First (15 October) we had the high intensity power trio from Berlin, C*ntroaches ...

Music deeply influenced by folk and traditional musics has increasingly become a familiar recipe for jazz from the Celtic fringes. That said, with ‘Birth Is Upon Me, Death Is Upon Me’, Córas Trio, a ...

Twenty years ago or so, experimental improvising musician Steve Beresford approached alternative comedian Stewart Lee with a ...

Vocalist Rebecka Edlund weaves together Scandinavian folk roots and London’s vibrant jazz scene, crafting a deeply personal ...