Njabulo Ndhlovu aka Radic The Myth from Johannesburg releases a three-track EP on Freerange Records this Friday. Over the last several years, he has released tracks as a producer and/or remixer on various labels such as Stay True Sounds or Garden Groove Music. The three new pieces on the London based Deep House label Freerange…
The seventh trio album by Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen on ECM Records came out last October and we’ve been coming back to this very intense record over and over again since its release. Jarle Vespestad on drums accompanies the pianist since his 2003 album “Changing Places”. Bassist Steinar Raknes is on board since 2022’s “Opening”….
Award-winning pianist, composer, singer, and songwriter Kevin Hays and drummer and vibraphonist Jorge Rossy have teamed up for an exciting duo album called “The Wait”. The list of artists with whom both of them have worked with over the last couple of decades reads like a who’s who of the jazz world. We’ve reviewed Kevin’s…
We just wanted to remind you of three albums released last year which we went back to over and over again. All three are out on vinyl too. Pianist and composer Renee Rosnes released “Crossing Paths” on December 6th on Smoke Sessions Records. The nine songs on the album feature Brazilian classics written by Egberto…
He’s on a short tour through the UK and the Netherlands and after a stop at Groningen’s Spot on Saturday, singer, songwriter, and keyboardist Jarrod Lawson was playing LantarenVenster in Rotterdam on Sunday night. Backed by a superb rhythm section which he met in the UK a few days prior to this performance, and a…
This year’s EFG London Jazz Festival is my first. I always wanted to go since there is so much to be liked about this festival. First of all, obviously, the programming. This year is another one with an extremely diverse, versatile and eclectic array of artists too numerous to mention here. But what is also…
The sixth edition of this year’s Rockit Festival, located at Groningen’s SPOT, ended on Saturday night with a rousing, highly entertaining, and crazy set by MonoNeon. The bassist, whose real name is Dywane Thomas Jr. and who is known for his hilariously extravagant costumes, also released a pretty spacy Moog EP earlier this year called…
There are only a handful of pianists with such a virtuosic approach and diverse dynamics like Fred Hersch. Which he proved again last night at Spot in Groningen, the vibrant live venue in the heart of this equally bubbling city which doesn’t showcase its virtues on or above the surface, but rather more slightly under…
Robert Glasper‘s “In December” originally came out last year exclusively on Apple Music. It is one of the must-have Christmas albums, not only because of Robert’s excellent playing and production work, but also because of the very special vocalists he enlisted to guest on his holiday album. A mini-medley of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman”…
Here are two must-haves on the German ACT Music label: “Arcs & Rivers”, an album by Swedish award-winning pianist and composer Joel Lyssarides and Greek bouzouki player Georgios Prokopiou, based in Sweden, came out in late September. And today sees the release of the second duo album by Bill Laurance and Michael League. Both albums…