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Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyBuilding on a long track record of scholarship and interpretive artistry focused on the great Mary Lou Williams, vibraphonist and composer Cecilia Smith unveils “The Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project Volume One: Small Ensemble Repertoire.” Through countless hours of immersion in the Williams archive at the Institute for Jazz Studies, … Continue reading

After blowing away audiences at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, UK trio Gogo Penguin returns on May 1 for a Hollywood Theatre gig

Plus: the best jazz releases of April 2023.

The heavy metal band are belligerent as ever, Merchant is full of existential desire and Manchester trio GoGo Penguin are the sound of hope

Album New Music review by Guy Oddy

Today, experimental Mercury Prize nominated UK trio Gogo Penguin release their fourth single “Parasite,” a multi-part extended composition that exemplifies Gogo Penguin’s ultimate ethos of creating experimental sounding electronic music with just piano, drums and bass. The video is accompanied by a music video, filmed in London and Manchester, the band's hometown, and directed by Jordan Copeland. Watch the music video here.

The first night of Guinness Cork Jazz Festival saw a solid opener and at least one brilliant gig 

The 36th annual TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival is presenting 140 shows this summer, with local and international stars performing.

GoGo Penguin’s Chris Illingworth,​ Neil Blacka and Rob Turner (Photo: John Shard/Montage: Paul Middlewick) Though jazz and cover performances are a long familiar pairing, remixing isn’t nearly as ubiquitous an exercise for the repertoire. Yet, GoGo Penguin and its new album GGP/RMX, there’s a sense of fully realized destiny in what Nick Blacka (Bass), Chris Illingworth (Piano) and Rob Turner (Percussion) have brought to life with the artistry of nearly a dozen other collaborators, inclu...