Caili O'Doherty, Quarantine Dream, Posi-Tone Records ****

One big jazz trend this year is the new straightahead arriving in quantity from labels, none of them new, such as Posi-Tone, Cellar Live and Storyville bolstering other tried and tested labels in this area such as HighNote, Smoke Sessions, Mack …

Published: 25 Jun 2022. Updated: 23 months.

One big jazz trend this year is the new straightahead arriving in quantity from labels, none of them new, such as Posi-Tone, Cellar Live and Storyville bolstering other tried and tested labels in this area such as HighNote, Smoke Sessions, Mack Avenue and to a lesser-extent April Records. US pianist Caili O'Doherty is certainly a mainstreamer who can veer in and out of being modernistic but not selfconsciously arty although there is a lot of art to what O'Doherty does. Saxophonist Nicole Glover is Joshua Redman-like, another big plus factor here as an add-on to an ostensible trio record. The feel-goodness circulates and transmits. Relative newcomers bassist Tamir Shmerling and drummer Cory Cox complete the line-up. 'Runaway' with Glover works on every level. Forget the inanities of Instagram O'Doherty as a jazz influencer keeps it real but it's in the playing here and not some sort of concocted image factory elsewhere where the real interest lies.

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Emma Johnson, Jamie Sykes, Anton Hunter and Chelsea Carmichael to unveil new work at 2022's Lancaster Jazz Festival

Backed by the PRS Open Fund for Organisations the Lancaster Jazz Festival premieres new work by Emma Johnson, Jamie Sykes, Anton Hunter and Chelsea Carmichael at the festival this autumn as part of its Evolve commission initiative. According to the …

Published: 25 Jun 2022. Updated: 23 months.

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Backed by the PRS Open Fund for Organisations the Lancaster Jazz Festival premieres new work by Emma Johnson, Jamie Sykes, Anton Hunter and Chelsea Carmichael at the festival this autumn as part of its Evolve commission initiative.

According to the festival website: ''Artists will visit Lancaster and compose an original new piece based on some link to the city reflecting their interests. It could be the city’s history, landscape, people, places.''

Saxophonist Chelsea Carmichael, above, who hails from the Lancashire town of Warrington an hour's drive away, on The River Doesn't Like Strangers last year was one of the first artists to release on Shabaka Hutchings' new Native Rebel Recordings label. On the album pithy statement, a lot of power and direct melodies grounded in an organic rhythmical development dominate.

Festival dates are 7-11 September. The Fergus McCreadie trio play the jazz festival launch on 5 July to be held during Gaia at Lancaster Priory