Scott Yanow review

Very happy to be welcoming Michael Kanan to the UK for the album release tour of our album, Golden Earrings. We’re playing eight gigs across a week in September. Hope you can join us! The dates are: 7th: Café Jazz, Cardiff 8th: The Verdict, Brighton* 9th: Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead* 10th: Seven…

Looking forward to some gigs coming up in this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival: Friday 16th and Saturday 17th November: launching Introducing REBOP at Toulouse Lautrec, Kennington. REBOP is an international quintet featuring the great Jorge Rossy on vibraphone. We recorded our first CD near Barcelona earlier this year. It is released this month on…

I recently read two great books about jazz that paint vivid pictures of important and fascinating times and places in the history of the music. A.B. Spellman’s Four Lives in the Bebop Business is divided into four sections, each one portraying a key figure in the 1960s jazz avant garde: Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Herbie…

I was flattered to have my album included in a few jazz journalists’ ‘Best of 2017’ end of year lists recently, including these two really nice ones from Simon Adams and Dave Gelly in Jazz Journal: I was also very happy to be included in Nick Lea’s list for Jazz Views and Tim Stenhouse’s list for…

Michael Kanan is coming over from New York this January for another tour! Can’t wait to play with him again. We’re playing together in Europe for the first time too – as well as the UK we have gigs in Switzerland and Holland. We’ll be doing a mixture of duo, trio and quartet performances so…

Looking forward to playing some UK dates with my friend Linus Eppinger next week. Linus is a fantastic German guitarist who lives in Amsterdam. I had the pleasure of playing some dates in Germany and the Netherlands with him last year, so it’s great to be able to fix up some gigs with him over…