Location: set your location

Jazz & blues

Sorted by date / most viewed. Showing 25, 50, 100 per page.

Hitlist

The best pop, rock, jazz and folk

18 Sep 2006

Jay Z Ignoring his own self-imposed retirement completely by appearing on everyone’s else’s records, the self-professed CEO of hip hop arrives for his first ever Scottish live date. See feature, page 20. SECC, Glasgow, Fri 22 Sep. (Rock & Pop) The…

Colin Towns & NDR Big Band - album review

Colin Towns & NDR Big Band

(4 stars)18 Sep 2006

JAZZ Recorded live at the Moers Jazz Festival and released simultaneously with Lend Me Your Ears, a fine studio album of Towns’ own compositions also featuring the NDR Big Band, this exuberant disc celebrates Zappa’s idiosyncratic music while…

Finn Peters - album review

Finn Peters

(4 stars)18 Sep 2006

JAZZ Like Neil Cowley, the London-based alto saxophonist and flautist has been working across a variety of genres for over a decade, from contemporary classical to dance music, but makes his jazz recording debut as a leader with this disc. His…

Hitlist

4 Sep 2006

Mark Olsen and the Creekdippers Wholesome and vibrant Americana from Olsen, his wife Victoria Williams and Ben Weaver all the way from Joshua Tree, California. ABC, Glasgow, Sat 10 Sep. (Rock & Pop) The Joyriders The Edinburgh-based pop-grungers…

Islay Jazz Festival

Various venues, Islay, Fri 15-Sun 17 Sep

4 Sep 2006

JAZZ Nine years ago, the announcement that a jazz festival was to be launched on the outwardly unlikely location of the island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides raised a few eyebrows. Many felt it would be a one-year wonder, or might manage to roll on…

Tim Reis - CD review

Tim Reis

(2 stars)4 Sep 2006

JAZZ New York jazzman Tim Reis has been playing saxophone with The Rolling Stones since 1999, and has used that experience as the launching point for jazz arrangements of ten Jagger/Richards tunes, recorded in different times and places with a galaxy…

OM - CD review

OM

(4 stars)4 Sep 2006

JAZZ OM were one of the more interesting groups to come out of the jazz-rock explorations of the early 70s, and remained together for a decade before disbanding in 1982. Saxophonist Urs Leimgruber, guitarist Christy Doran, bassist Bobby Burri and…

132 articles.

Sorted by date / most viewed. Showing 25, 50, 100 per page.

RSS feed