by Nick Hart | Jun 8, 2022
Ajay Srivistav is a blues musician whose music, reflecting the lessons learned as a British-born artist of Indian heritage, has brought him to the fore in recent years. His unique rootsy guitar style is layered with inflections of sitar and sarod and shows the ability...
by Nick Hart | Jun 8, 2022
Alan Barnes’ career has covered most of the bases, from his early years with the extremes of the Pasadena Roof Orchestra and Tommy Chase Quintet before settling into a band that perfectly fitted his talents: the Humphrey Lyttelton Band. In his years as a freelancer,...
by Nick Hart | Jun 8, 2022
It’s a measure of Alex Clarke’s remarkable progress that her recent CD, Only a Year, boasted a rhythm section beyond compare in 2023 Britain: Dave Newton, Dave Green and Clark Tracey, this only four years since she was voted Rising Star in the British Jazz Awards and...
by Nick Hart | Jun 8, 2022
Returning to the Festival, and bringing with them the joys of barbershop singing, are the Anvil Chorus and Classmates. The Anvil Chorus is the 30-plus-strong choir of the West Midlands Barbershop Harmony Club while Classmates, from the ranks of the Anvil Chorus, are...
by Nick Hart | Jun 8, 2022
Art Themen is a totally unique figure in British jazz, from the wide variety of styles his career has encompassed (rhythm and blues and hard bop), but also because for much of his life he was also working as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon! Going to Cambridge...
by Nick Hart | Jun 8, 2022
B.D. Lenz returns to Birmingham as part of a month-long tour of the UK, Belgium and Germany to promote his 13th album, It’s Just a Dream. New Jersey native Lenz is a guitarist whose style fuses the music of Pat Metheny, Mike Stern and Stevie Ray Vaughan – or, to put...
