Review: Matthew Herbert’s Brexit Big Band – The State Between Us @ Royal Court Theatre (London; Friday 29th March 2019)

 It was scheduled for and supposed to go on scene on the night when the UK should have left Europe, but it didn’t go as expected. Well, the show was regularly featured on the evening of 29th March, but it was Brexit (as we all know) that turned out to…

Artists: Matthew Herbert , The Matthew Herbert Brexit Big Band

Review: Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards @ Koko (London, 21st January 2017)

Gilles Peterson has become synonymous with the continued revelation of the latest talents that fuse non-traditional jazz with musical influences from across the world.  This explains why his twelfth annual worldwide awards sold out quickly and why many consider him an ambassador for world music, bringing new global concepts back…

Artists: Acid Arab , Ezra Collective , Gilles Peterson , Jameszoo , Jimetta Rose , Matthew Herbert , Michael Kiwanuka , Noname