Mejedi Owusu (left) with his quintet at Jazz in the Round There's been a bit of a kerfuffle at London's music conservatoires in recent days over an email from a teacher claiming that white students in the jazz departments are disadvantaged by the preferences given to fellow students who are black. The teacher in question…

The Blue Moment Jazz

01.04.2024

Ishiguro, long ago | thebluemoment.com

A typical day in the A&R department at Island Records' London headquarters in November 1975. Four or five people coming in to play their demo tapes to me or my assistant, Howard Thompson, in the semi-basement office in a beautiful stucco house in St Peter's Square, W6. A lunchtime meeting with Phil Collins, a familiar…

The Blue Moment Jazz

06.04.2024

The Necks at Cafe Oto | thebluemoment.com

"We've never really been an emotional band," Lloyd Swanton observed drily after the first set on the last of the Necks' four nights at Cafe Oto in London this week, "but it seems to be creeping in." I'd been trying to tell him, somewhat incoherently, how moved I'd been by what they'd just played, and…

The Blue Moment Jazz

16.04.2024

Sounds for summer | thebluemoment.com

Tall enough to be unmissable in any environment, and with a truly remarkable fashion sense, Shabaka Hutchings had presence from day one of his career. To me, as an observer, that was the concert at the Royal Festival Hall in June 2009 at which he was one of several UK guests with Charlie Haden's Liberation…

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