Twm Dylan

City Swamp

By Jake Long

Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ideological Rubble; Celestial Soup; Swamp; Silhouette.

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 ...

Jake Long: City Swamp

by Chris May
May 3, 2024

Drummer, composer and producer Jake Long's house-rocking City Swamp is part of a trilogy of post-2022 albums out of London's underground jazz scene which are connected by adjacent sources of inspiration, identical creative processes, and crossovers of personnel. Synchronicity and zeitgeist are writ large and, much of the time, in neon. The other two albums are ...

Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions

By Gary Bartz

Label: Night Dreamer
Released: 2020
Track listing: Harlem To Haarlem; The Stank; Leta��s Dance; Uhuru Sasa; Dr Follows Dance.

Gary Bartz & Maisha: Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions

by Chris May
May 8, 2020

This international spiritual-jazz jam promises much and delivers most of it. On the one hand, Gary Bartz, who is among the movement's American elder statesmen. On the other, Maisha, six young Londoners. The backstory: The wedding planner who brought the parties together is the London DJ and founder of Brownswood Recordings, Gilles Peterson. ...

Brussels Jazz Festival 2019

by Martin Longley
February 15, 2019

Brussels Jazz Festival Flagey Brussels, Belgium January 10-19, 2019 The Brussels Jazz Festival is a relative newcomer, but this ambitious 10-dayer managed to sell out around two thirds of its gigs, and was overall the most successful in attendance for this fifth edition. Concerts are held in the ...