Jazz Album
Album Review: Emma Rawicz & Gwilym Simcock – ‘Big Visit’: A sax/piano jazz connection that sets new standards.
The similarities in the musical pathways between saxophonist Emma Rawicz and pianist Gwilym Simcock are a bit uncanny. Both studied at Chethams School Of Music and The Royal Academy, both have won a sleuth of UK Jazz plaudits including the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, Simcock in 2007 and Rawicz in 2021, both release through the seminal …
Album Review: Emily Kuhn – Ghosts Of Us : Bouyant, melodic, refreshing jazz from the Chicago trumpeter.
Emily Kuhn’s new album ‘Ghosts of Us’, out now via the consistently impressive BACE Records, may have been written during the cloying pall of pandemic times but it represents an artist emerging with regenerated focus. Not that the Chicago based jazz trumpeter and composer’s 2020 debut ‘Sky Stories’ lacked vitality or purpose. It captured Kuhn’s …
Album: Maria Chiara Argirò And Jamie Leeming – Flow
Pianist Maria Chiara Argirò and guitarist Jamie Leeming debut album ‘Flow’, combines elements of modern jazz, electronica and contemporary folk music to create an expansive and cinematic sound, they explore a broad range of textures and emotions, ranging from dynamic sections brim full of movement, pace and excitement, to moments that are more reflective and …