Before the evening show on the first of their two days at Cafe Oto on Saturday, the Necks were announced to the audience as "the house band". We laughed, and so did they. But it seemed to fit. The Australian improvising trio have played in many London venues, but the little space on Ashwin Street…

The Blue Moment Jazz

11.06.2025

A point of stillness | thebluemoment.com

There is a balm in Gilead, according to an African American spiritual whose lines were borrowed from the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah, and there is a profound sense of healing in Solace of the Mind, the new solo album by the pianist and organist Amina Claudine Myers. Born 83 years ago in Blackwell, Arkansas,…

The Blue Moment Jazz

15.06.2025

The last of the Blue Notes | thebluemoment.com

Louis Moholo-Moholo died on Thursday at his home in Cape Town, aged 85. He was the last survivor of the Blue Notes, the group -- also including the trumpeter Mongezi Feza, the alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana, the pianist Chris McGregor and the bassist Johnny Dyani -- who arrived in Europe in 1964, fleeing South Africa's…

The Blue Moment Jazz

02.07.2025

Under the same sky | thebluemoment.com

In the 55 years since the discreet arrival of the first ECM album, Mal Waldron's Free At Last, Manfred Eicher's label has released somewhere north of a thousand albums. Contrary to a cynical early view, they don't all sound the same. They are, however, distinguished by the presence of set of qualities -- musical, aesthetic…

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