Blues and Soul Music Magazine

Brandon Allen Groove Band : 1 Kew Rd 14/05/23

Being Sunday, the pure gospel of ‘I Didn’t Mean To Hurt You’ added some light and soulful respite and hit the sweet spot with Allen going into King Curtis mode

Tristan Banks : Pizza Express Soho 25/04/2023

Tristan’s composition, Polycephaly’ has a lilt like all classic Brazilian jazz and furthermore sax & flute player, Paul Booth, offered up a mellifluous tenor solo

John Altman Big Band : Pizza Express Dean St London 16/04/2023

A packed Sunday lunchtime session got under way at this popular Dean St jazz venue and eatery. The Inimitable and affable band leader, composer and arranger extraordinaire, John Altman, was in the house

John Etheridge: Crazy Coqs London 28/1/23

I didn’t know what to expect as I had only heard John Etheridge playing on records with Soft Machine (1975 - 1978 period) so I was intrigued as to how he was going to play this...

Brandon Allen Groove Band : Spice Of Life Soho London 6/10/22

Allen’s compositions have the element of surprise,harmonic depth and really great heads to boot.

Georgie Fame with the guy barker big band Ronnie Scott’s 10/9/22

It’s startling to think he’s been going 60 years plus! He has been a fixture in Soho since the early Sixties,

Herbie Hancock: Barbican Centre, London 22/6/22

It was little surprise, then, to see the Barbican Centre in central London packed when the jazz luminary, now aged 82, came to town days before his Glastonbury performance...

Trombone Shorty: O2 Academy2 Birmingham 20/5/22

There are few figures on the modern music scene with the versatility of New Orleans stalwart Troy Andrews. Known to the world as Trombone Shorty...

Gregory Porter: Royal Albert Hall, London 14/10/21

The sight of a 32-strong City of London Symphonia behind US jazz royal Gregory Porter on the Royal Albert Hall stage raised the audience’s anticipation level to max...

Worldwide FM 5th Birthday - South Facing: Crystal Palace Bowl, London 15/8/21

My fourth visit of the summer to Crystal Palace Bowl was for the Worldwide FM day, bring together a range of top-quality talent including The Cinematic Orchestra, The Comet Is Coming, KOKOROKO +more!