Jean Toussaint, Chiminyo, Arthur O’Hara Trio Jazz In The Round at Emergence Festival, St. Mary in the Castle, Hastings Saturday 29th September, 2018 Jazz In The Round promoters Chris Phillips and Jez Nelson must have scoured the South in their search for suitably-shaped venues to accommodate their expanding vision; St Mary’s In The Rock, […]
Jazz Jamaica All Stars Brighton Dome Concert Hall Saturday 29th September, 2018 The relationship between jazz and reggae was for a while a rare combination, until the breakthrough of Jamaican jazz guitarist and visionary Ernest Ranglin, whose fresh approach saw a revolutionary breakthrough towards the fusion of Jamaica’s national music with the technical aspects […]
Eastbourne Splash Point Jazz Festival The Fishermen’s Club, Christ Church and Leaf Hall, Eastbourne Sunday 30th September, 2018 Splash Point Jazz’s inaugural jazz festival in Eastbourne saw 12 different bands performing across 3 separate venues. The largest venue of the festival, Christ Church, hosted Festival Director Neal Richardson’s Band who performed a number of […]
Joe Armon-Jones Patterns, Brighton Wednesday 10th October, 2018 The new London jazz scene, recently featured in the New York Times, is all about the live experience and this is something that Mr. Bongo is bringing to Patterns in Brighton over the next few months. Ezra Collective’s pianist Joe Armon-Jones, on his return to Brighton, […]
Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival: Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston The Verdict, Brighton Thursday 4th October, 2018 Brighton’s Alternative Jazz Festival, in its third incarnation this year, kicks off with a raucous exposé of jazz from the distended edges of tradition. This evening’s gig, having swung through the clipped snapshots of In Threads and the […]
Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival: Adam Fairhall, David Birchall/Andrew Cheetham/Julie Kjaer/Hannah Marshall, Laura Jurd’s Dinosaur, Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Peter Brötzmann & Full Blast, Irreversible Entanglements St. Luke’s Church, Brighton Saturday 13th October, 2018 Still illuminated from the previous week’s performance of legendary composer Terry Riley, St Luke’s Church had the enormous honour of […]
Pete Hill Quintet The Verdict, Brighton Friday 31st August, 2018 Drummer Pete Hill made a name for himself on the Brighton scene as an experienced, contemporary drummer and since moving to London he’s continued to develop both his playing and the variety of bands he performs with. Performing as part of the excellent New […]
Peter Ind at 90 The Verdict, Brighton Friday 14th September, 2018 “When I was younger, if I said ‘fuck’ it would be the end of the world. It no longer is, and I love saying it. Fuck!” -Peter Ind Peter Ind’s career began in 1949 when he travelled to America as a […]
Hilary Burt's Blue Calluna The Brunswick, Hove 9th September, 2018 Occasionally you see something new, not Turner Prize new for the sake of new, but in-the-tradition new. Rhythms and harmonies you know and love; movingly, excitingly new. People seemed to know something was coming. The Sunday night jazz slot at The Brunswick on September […]
Tim Whitehead Quartet The Verdict, Brighton Friday 17th August, 2018 It’s been a while since Tim Whitehead performed in Brighton so it was a joy to see him performing with his longtime associate Milo Fell on drums and eminent local bassist Nigel Thomas. Beginning with a latin version of Invitation, followed by […]