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Moses Boyd – ‘Songs for Sinners’
It is all of six years since the release of Moses Boyd’s Dark Matter, a groundbreaking jazz album which so skilfully defined the new wave of British jazz at the time. With his…
Putting Marrakech on the Map for Global Jazz
From the intimate stage of Riad Monceau’s Le Bistro Arabe to the city’s first jazz festival, Tim Cumming discovers a new beat in the Ochre City… Karim Bakka, the moving force…
Rebecka Edlund / Laura Jurd / Ruth Goller Trio in Birmingham
I’ve been to the Symphony Hall in Birmingham many times and never knew. When the Symphony Hall itself isn’t in use, the seating area for the bar / café can turn itself into a…
Christ-Stéphane Boizi – ‘As The Spirit Leads’
By John Stevenson Having caught trombonist Christ-Stéphane Boizi and his septet at a capacity-packed Pizza Express Jazz Club (Soho) performance on 3 November, where both leader…
Raoul Björkenheim & Paal Nilssen-Love – ‘PING’
One day I might sit down in the park and review it. I think this might help me find a way into this kind of music, verbally that is, since to play it feels to me to be more about…