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Jay Phelps review – vivacious jazz trumpeter hops from hard bop to Outkast

2215 days ago
Guardian Music — Cockpit theatre, LondonThe Canadian delivered a genre-fluid, playfully funky performance, ably supported by sets from cinematic composer Phelan Burgoyne and Cuban violinist Omar PuenteThe versatile and personable Canadian trumpeter Jay Phelps â€â€... more info
OutKast Wynton Marsalis Terence Blanchard Empirical

Ricardo Villalobos LP Next on [a:rpia:r]

2551 days ago
XLR8R — Rhadoo, Raresh, and Petre Inspirescu's [a:rpia:r] will release a new Ricardo Villalobos LP in May. Empirical House will be the Romanian label's first release in more than a year, following on from Dan Andrei's debut LP in December 2015. The four-t... more info
Ricardo Villalobos Empirical

London jazz festival 2012: big bands blow the away the competition

4170 days ago
Guardian Music — The death of large ensembles has been greatly exaggerated – as the supersized talent at this year's festival showsFeaturing more than 250 gigs, the London jazz festival 2012 brought musical thrills to packed halls, foyers and free stages at the Sou... more info
Empirical Iro Haarla

London jazz festival: Ambrose Akinmusire/Robert Glasper – review

4178 days ago
Guardian Music — Various venues, LondonAt one o'clock on Saturday morning in Ronnie Scott's Club, in the opening hours of the 2012 London jazz festival, the phenomenal young California trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and his quintet cut loose 15 minutes of fervent musi... more info
Ronnie Scott Empirical Basement Jaxx Vortex

Trish Clowes – review

4218 days ago
Guardian Music — Kings Place, LondonTrish Clowes has been a hot ticket in jazz-influenced contemporary music all year (Radio 3 has just made the saxophonist and composer one of its New Generation Artists), but the cheering clearly hasn't gone to her head. On the laun... more info
New Generation Empirical

Improbable research: The highs and lows of the musical eyebrow

4415 days ago
Guardian Music — Research by Danish and American researchers shows that eyebrows go higher when singers sing high notes than they do when they sing low notesWhen singers sing high notes, their eyebrows go higher than when they sing low notes. While that may not be an... more info
Empirical

Live music: coming up

4422 days ago
Guardian Music — Take a look at the gigs our writers will be reviewing this week, and tell us about live music you've seen recentlyEach week we publish a list of concerts our writers will be covering in the next few days, and we invite you to tell us about shows you'... more info
Jeff Mangum Rebecca Ferguson Michael Wollny Empirical Ronnie Scott Public Image Ltd. Paul Weller

This week's new live music

4474 days ago
Guardian Music — The Maccabees, On tourOnce an appealingly eccentric indie band, the Maccabees have since signed a major deal and streamlined their sound. No one would begrudge them that, especially since theirs so far has been a slightly difficult journey. On their ... more info
The Maccabees Joy Division La Roux Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Kanye West R. Kelly Empirical Faust

Houston Person – review

4482 days ago
Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonHouston Person, the burly and bluesily expressive American tenorist, learned his craft in the early 1950s, a time when some of the earliest pioneers of jazz saxophone – Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster... more info
Ronnie Scott Sonny Rollins Empirical Juicy Lucy

The new faces of British jazz

4557 days ago
Guardian Music — On the eve of the London jazz festival, we profile the artists who are winning plaudits for their energy and originalityYou don't often get an American headline artist interrupting his own set to extol the talents of his British support act, but it h... more info
Empirical Redman

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