David Swan

B?r

By Johanna Burnheart

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Rix; Falke; Botlierskop; Above The World's End; Ems; Something Cool; Cylla Burna; Clemen; Fossa Offekonis.

Johanna Burnheart: B?r

by Chris May
June 7, 2024

German-born London-based violinist, singer and composer Johanna Burnheart made a big impact fast on the Britain's underground jazz scene. After graduating from Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2018, and before the pandemic shut things down, she played on three significant albums: spiritual-jazz band Maisha's There Is A Place (Brownswood, 2018), trombonist Rosie Turton's 5ive ...

Role Models

By Dominic Ingham

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Role Models; Fall; Pj's; Intro To Phones; Phones; Daydreaming; Bottles; Passport.

Burnheart

By Johanna Burnheart

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2020
Track listing: Box Office; Forever Dance; Mensch; Mythos; Never Let Me Go; Plastik; Silence Is Golden; Sysiphos.

Johanna Burnheart: Techno Jazz Shines A Light: New Directions In Music

by Chris May
October 28, 2020

A relatively new name on London's alternative jazz scene, the German-born violinist, vocalist and composer Johanna Burnheart has made a rapid ascent since leaving the city's Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2018. She has played on three of the scene's benchmark albums--spiritual-jazz band Maisha's There Is A Place (Brownswood, 2018), trombonist Rosie Turton's 5ive ...

Johanna Burnheart: Burnheart

by Chris May
October 16, 2020

The violin has an eventful history in jazz. But it is still a niche instrument, despite a line of singular players stretching back to Stephane Grappelli and Stuff Smith (who deserves some bonus points for composing the immortal “If You're A Viper"). There are no schools of jazz violinists, simply a succession of one-off stylists, with ...

Dominic Ingham: Role Models

by Ian Patterson
July 30, 2020

Jazz violinists' role models tend to follow a familiar continuum that runs roughly from Stuff Smith and Stéphane Grappelli to Jean Luc Ponty and Didier Lockwood. British violinist/singer Dominic Ingham, however, paddles his own canoe. With a technique that draws as much from his folk and classical upbringing as it does from jazz, Ingham's idiom is ...