Dave Weckl was a devoted Buddy Rich disciple long before he stole the show playing ‘Mercy, Mercy, Mercy’ and ‘Bugle Call’ at a LA-staged memorial bash celebrating his hero in 1989.
With all the recent Brexit shenanigans it must have been a proud moment for Britain's very own Binker & Moses to kick off the 41st North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam last week.
How lucky to be in Montpellier at the same time as the Michael Wollny Trio and catch them live for the first time.
A queue stretching down the street outside Brighton’s Komedia showed that Stanley Clarke’s recent appearance at Love Supreme Festival had whetted rather than blunted local appetites for fusion bass wizardry.
There are empty rows in the riverside Dokkhuset during native sax king Marius Neset’s exhilarating finale.
Revisiting old haunts can be a let-down.
If the much maligned technocrats of the Brexit-bashed EU wanted to have a coherent Union in Europe then this adventurously programmed festival would be music to their ears, jazz being the universal language rather than the common market.
Generations of musicians and music lovers from across the globe filled the hall at the Barbican to witness this concert, convened in honour of one of the 20th century’s most talented and influential musicians.
“Thinking what I will use/to get the cool tone”, sang the great singer-songwriter Stephen Stills during ‘Piece of Me’, a cut from his 2005 release Man Alive!.
Show tune is a vague term.
