Blues and Soul Music Magazine

The Soul Immigrants Ft.Freddie Notes & Ciyo Brown : Pizza Express Holborn 30/11/19

The relatively new Holborn venue is certainly picking the right acts,teaming up with all sorts of promoters,such as Mayank Patel (who runs Hampstead Jazz Club) as witnessed tonight.

P.P. Arnold: Islington Town Hall, London 11/10/19

P.P. Arnold sounds incredibly youthful on the album, and this is no different onstage. Naturally charismatic, she is very chatty throughout her set, describing past romances and collaborators...

Corinne Bailey Rae: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London 18/11/19

The superb acoustics of London's Queen Elizabeth Hall let Corinne Bailey Rae's sounds soar over an appreciative audience as she delivered wave after wave of sonic perfection...

Lisa Stansfield: G Live, Guildford, Surrey 22/10/19

UK R&B/Soul royal Lisa Stansfield picked the perfect venue on her latest Europe wide tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the artist's seminal 1989 classic album, "Affection". And boy, were her audience pleased...

McAlmont & Webb: The last Bohemians (Album Launch) Hampstead Jazz Club, London 19/11/19

The covers score highly too. R.E.M. recontextualised into a waltz gives a song already deep with pathos, even more, peppered with beautiful soprano sax courtesy of Tony Kofi...

360 Band: Ronnie Scott’s, London 28/10/19

EX-AVERAGE WHITE BAND DUO PAY TRIBUTE TO COMRADE MOLLY DUNCAN WITH TRIUMPHANT PERFORMANCE AT LONDON’S RONNIE SCOTT’S CLUB

EFG London Jazz Festival's Jazz Voice: Royal Festival Hall, London 15/11/19

18 year old Matthew Whitaker is a terrific tour de force.He looked like a young 60's era Stevie Wonder (incidentally Wonder's music was heavily featured through out the night) and his piano playing was quite simply electrifying

Chali 2Na, Krafty Kuts and Dynamite MC: The H Club, London 16/8/19

Chali 2Na has one of the most distinctive voices in hip-hop, after 2 impressive decades in the business he's still coming up with the goods...

Tony Lyndsay : Pizza Express Holborn 19/09/2019

Pizza Express have a fine reputation in bringing over US acts Gregory Porter being a case in point and more recently Judith Hill and Prince protégé Andy Allo.So it was great to see Tony Lindsay on the bill

Janelle Monae: SSE Arena, Wembley, London 2/7/19

The Wembley show was passionate, politically charged and inspiring. With her music packed with positive and inclusive messages, Janelle Monae could be one of the most important artists of our era...