Music Music Jazz albums with Chris Searle: March 22, 2024 Reviews of Max Eastley/Terry Day/John Butcher, Trevor Tomkins' Sextant, and Caroline Kraabel and Pat Thomas
Interview Arts | Tuesday 23rd Jan 2024 Interview ‘I couldn't play publicly with black musicians, only in their homes’
Music Tuesday 17th May 2022 Music Album reviews with Chris Sealre: May 17, 2022 Mario LaginhaJangadaEdition Records★★★★
Music History Monday 09th May 2022 Music History Mingus: forceful political engagement CHRIS SEARLE signals the continued importance of Charles Mingus who infused contemporary jazz’s with uncompromising political comment
Tuesday 12th Apr 2022 Oh hear us when we cry to thee/For those in peril on the sea Chris Searle speaks with saxophonist CAROLINE KRAABEL about her album LAST 1 LAST 2 and the contribution of Robert Wyatt
Live Music Review Tuesday 29th Mar 2022 Live Music Review A warm March night, with a special magnetism Rudresh MahanthappaPizza Express, Soho
Tuesday 08th Mar 2022 ‘Justice is something needed now, more than ever’ CHRIS SEARLE talks to Barry Altschul, drummer of the OGJB Quartet on the release of their album Ode To O
Jazz Thursday 10th Feb 2022 Jazz ‘What's been has been, but what's ahead is unknown and in many ways more exciting’ CHRIS SEARLE speaks with York native and revolutionary improviser alto saxophonist Trevor Watts
Jazz Monday 17th Jan 2022 Jazz ‘During the Trump years we needed spirituals to comfort us again’ Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist JAVON JACKSON on the release of his new album: The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni
Jazz Friday 07th Jan 2022 Jazz ‘The music of human flesh’ CHRIS SEARLE talks with the Moscow-born Israeli saxophonist Lena Bloch about the release of and inspirations behind her album Rose of Lifta
Monday 29th Nov 2021 ‘You can hear what a beautiful player he was’ Chris Searle speaks to VAL WILMER about veteran virtuoso New Orleans clarinettist Albert Nicholas