Blues and Soul Music Magazine

Bobby Harden & Stew Cutler: Arthur's Tavern, New York City 16/02/20

Arthur's Tavern in Greenwich Village is a Manhattan musical institution. With music seven nights a week until late this is a happening place and a well-kept secret but now anymore...

Angie Stone: Indigo at the O2, London 19/10/19

One of neo-soul's foremost figures, Angie Stone, dazzled last year at the first-ever Innervisions Festival. So it was no surprise that her gig at Indigo at the O2 drew a big crowd to see her in action again...

GoldLink: O2 Academy Brixton 19/11/19

GoldLink released one of the most talked-about records of the year in the form of "Diaspora and unsurprisingly his Brixton Academy show was packed long before the rapper took to the stage...

Chronixx + Koffee: Arena Birmingham 10/11/19

Modern reggae royal, Chronixx, performing his only UK headline show of 2019 and Koffee who drops her on-point lyricism and astonishing flow show why they both have the world at their feet...

Boisdale : Speakeasy Blues Opening 25/02/2020

Curator for the evening,Radio presenter and Blues musician Paul Jones led proceedings and played mean harmonica too with the house band

Chris Standring: PizzaExpress Jazz Club, Soho 27/02/20

Chris Standring is a savvy musician, he saw his opportunity and headed stateside, some years back and decided to carve a niche across the pond...

Freddie Gibbs: Concorde 2, Brighton 22/10/19

Madlib is an unapologetically creative force, while Gibbs is a stone-cold gangsta rapper. And yet there's a chemistry between them that sent waves through the Concorde 2 in Brighton...

Dexter Wansel : The Jazz Cafe London 6/02/2020

His production work is mightily impressive too : Four Lou Rawls albums, three Pattie La belle ones,two of the Jacksons plus individual releases from Phylis Hyman,Teddy Pendergrass and Grover Washington Jr.

Friederike Klum & James Pearson: Somebody To Love Me launch Ronnie Scotts, London 07/2/20

Friederike Krum (the award-winning German Mezzo-Soprano) has teamed up with the artistic director of Ronnie Scotts, pianist James Pearson presenting all things Gershwin...

The Project PH Band & Jam Session: Spice Of Life, Soho, London 5/2/20

Good to see the Spice Of Life jazz sessions are thriving, they've been running for several years putting on all things jazz-related and relevant and props to Paul Pace and crew for keeping such a tight ship afloat...