Category: Concert Reviews

November 7, 2024 / Concert Reviews

St Stephen’s Church, November 1 9/10 Her voice sparked and flared even more than her blue-and-gold gown in the lights. One moment it was chomping and grinding in her contralto range, and then, like an inverse shooting star, it dashed up to pitches beyond the stratosphere. Quite simply, Jazzmeia Horn…

October 22, 2024 / Concert Reviews

Concert Hall, October 11 9/10 Herbie Hancock has never made music: he’s always shared it. This was already the case when, aged 23, the pianist joined arguably Miles Davis’s greatest band, and created harmonic atmospheres that suddenly made jazz weightless, while still under maximum propulsion. Simultaneously, he became a notable…

October 11, 2024 / Concert Reviews

City Recital Hall, September 26 6/10 He really should have had a band. Just bass and drums – like a certain previous trio that benefitted from Andy Summers’ guitar playing. If you’re going to use backing tracks on virtually every song, it seems lame and even cheap not do what…