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North's youngsters team up for all that jazz

A MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Award-nominated musician is aiming to inspire the next generation of talent through the formation of the first-ever junior improvisational jazz ensemble in Northern Ireland.

Music • 02 Mar 22

Violinist Dominic Ingham (centre) and his Role Models band - exhilarating and worth repeated spins...

Album review: Dominic Ingham Role Models

It's a brave man who launches his violin-led jazz album. But then again, it's brave man who releases any jazz album and Dominic Ingham's debut shows vitality, intelligence and depth on repeated listens.

Features • 11 Aug 20

Wolfgang Muthspiel, Austrian visionary on six strings

Album review: Angular Blues - Muthspiel, Colley, Blade

The prolific Austrian guitarist, Wolfgang Muthspiel (born 1965) returns with his third album for ECM in three years, recorded with an organic-sounding, close-knit ensemble comprising Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums.

Music Reviews • 10 Jun 20

Ferenc Snétberger: formal elegance and free form escapism

Ferenc Snétberger - Titok

We are so used to nylon string guitar work that looks to the Spanish tradition that anything outside of it almost comes as a surprise.Hungarian Ferenc Snétberger weaves subtle beauty with but a passing glance to the Iberian peninsula.

Reviews • 13 Jul 17

Bill Evans: A lost session now comes to light from out of the Black Forest

Bill Evans – Some Other Time

On these Black Forest sessions recorded on June 20, 1968, Bill Evans is on top form on his Steinway joined by his accompanists, bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette.

Music Reviews • 24 May 16

Uncompromisingly deep-delving but dazzling too: Pérez Patitucci Blade

Pérez Patitucci Blade - Children of the Light

Intended in part as a thank you gift to Wayne Shorter with whom the trio three spent over ten years in the master saxophonist's quartet, Children of the Light burns with muscular vibrancy.

Music Reviews • 29 Sep 15