Martin Longley experiences the utmost in musical contrasts offered by NYC…
New York Sounds: The Week In Free Jazz, No Wave Funk-Disco, Jewish Cantorial Experimentation & Alternative Hip Hop
New York Sounds: Drum Thunder
Martin Longley watches those drumsticks fly in New York City…
Martin Longley’s New York Sounds: Brazil In NYC
Martin Longley appreciates a sudden invasion of Brazilian artists in New York City…
Martin Longley’s Tampere Jazz Happening review
Martin Longley journeyed to Tampere to eat reindeer and chase some adventurous jazz music…
Martin Longley’s gig review: The Cork Jazz Festival
Martin Longley’s quaff-of-choice certainly ain’t Guinness, but he still ventured across the waves to drink in the Cork Jazz Festival…
The Invasion Of The Beery Blues: Part 25
There’s a beery blues invasion on the way, with a quartet of fine practitioners descending on the area. Martin Longley has already caught them all, up in York during the last few months…
Martin Longley’s Walter Trout review
American bluesman Walter Trout appears at The Assembly in Leamington Spa on Sunday night – 14th October. Martin Longley saw him play in York last Monday…
Martin Longley’s Nantes jazzfest review
Martin Longley follows the long and winding River Erdre in Nantes. That’s the inspired location of a spiffing weekender jazzfest in the vibrant French port…
Martin Longley’s Jazz Middelheim review
Martin Longley just can’t get enough of Belgium! This time he returns to review the Antwerpian Jazz Middelheim festival weekender…
Gent Jazz Festival 2012 [part two]
The second weekend of the Gent Jazz Festival broadens its scope to funk, reggae and rock’n’roll. Martin Longley jumps, slumps and pumps…
Martin Longley makes his annual pilgrimage to the Gent Jazz Festival in Belgium…
And here’s his review
Martin Longley’s New York Sounds: Jazz Pulsations
Martin Longley sends out further throbbing signals from New York City…
Martin Longley’s New York Sounds: Transgenerational Jazz Duos
Martin Longley checks out a completely coincidental run of codger’n’stripling twosomes…
Martin Longley’s New York Sounds: Live From The Allen Room
Martin Longley has made a pronouncement to the effect that The Allen Room boasts the best view from a New York City venue. It also plays host to some pretty hot music…
Martin Longley interviews Tim Berne
The New York saxophonist Tim Berne is playing in London on Wednesday and Thursday. Martin Longley interviewed him in a Brooklyn bar…
New York Sounds: The Fag End Of 2011
Martin Longley has a last clutch of 2011 gigs to discuss…
New York Sounds: Trumpets (and a cornet) Ablaze!
Martin Longley polishes his bugle in NYC…
New York sounds: axemen vibrations
Martin Longley spreadeth the word: the geetar is the true Satanic Lord in NYC…
The Necks best thing
This evening, Australian improvising trio The Necks are playing in an old Birmingham metal pressing factory. This is strangely appropriate, says Martin Longley…
Detroit Jazz Festival
The London Jazz Festival may well be fully throbbing this weekend, but across the Atlantic in Detroit, there’s a gargantuan (and completely free-admission) alternative. All we have to do is pay the airfare, says Martin Longley…
New York Sounds: Oddroc Meets Improvokation
Martin Longley hobbles along the causeway that lies between extreme rock and abstract improvisation
New York Sounds: Dub Invasion
Martin Longley plumbs frequencies even more subterranean than those of the NYC subway system…
New York jazz sounds
Martin Longley gobbles his supply of enlargement pills, working up from trio stirrings to big band engorgements…
New York Sounds: Drums Over Manhattan
For a short spell, Martin Longley decided that he would only check out bands with drumming leaders…
WOMAD review
Martin Longley reports back, a bit late in the day, from the global swirl that is the WOMAD festival…
Gent Jazz Festival part II
Martin Longley delivers part two of his Gent Jazzfest review…
Gent Jazz Festival 2011
Martin Longley makes what’s kinda becoming his annual jaunt to the mighty Gent Jazzfest in Belgium…
New York Sounds: Live From The Bell House
Martin Longley spends a considerable amount of time in one of Brooklyn’s finest haunts…
New York Sounds: Sonic Extremities
Serrated axes, throttling reeds, circular-breathing trumpet tones and yowling or multiphonic vocals: all of these infest the mean streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn,
New York Sounds: Oddroc
Martin Longley finds that oddroc forms are still flourishing in Manhattan and Brooklyn…