Not often does a jazz club dedicate an evening to the memory of a regular customer. Last night's show at the Vortex was dedicated to Shirley Thompson, who died earlier this year, aged 87. For many years Shirley and her partner, John Jack, the founder of Cadillac Records, were fixtures at a table for two…

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29.07.2025

Olie Brice at the Vortex | thebluemoment.com

Almost a year ago I wrote warmly about the debut of the bassist and composer Olie Brice's new quartet at Cafe Oto, noting that they'd be going into a studio the following day to record an album. That album -- titled All It Was -- is now out, its release celebrated at the Vortex last…

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25.08.2025

Major dudes, minor ninths | thebluemoment.com

The implied flavour of much of the music made by Donald Fagen and the late Walter Becker might be read as that of hard bop as played on the West Coast: laconic, brainy, slyly coded, but also somehow sunlit. By contrast with the jazz musicians they admired, the Steely Dan duo were afforded the sort…

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28.08.2025

Farewell to Bra Tebs | thebluemoment.com

There used to be a civilised convention that normal reviewing practice should be suspended for certain kinds of musical events: those put on for charity, or memorials. Of the celebration of the life of Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo at a packed 100 Club last night, it need really only be said that the whole evening was…

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