emuliJazz                      podcast, photography and promotion by Pete Woodman

The April podcast includes an interview with South African guitarist and composer Vuma Levin and music from Vuma's Quintet alongside tunes from Abbie Finn Trio, Fergus McCreadie, Stan Tracey's Big Band and the Louis Moholo Octet. Links Vuma Levin's website - https://vumalevin.co.za/ Vuma Levin on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5nJiuTEfd55CApEZiZUtlX Abbie Finn's website - https://abbiefinn.com/ Fergus McCreadie's website - https://www.fergusmccreadie.co.uk/ Re-Stea

The December edition of the emuliJazz podcast is now live. This month features artists from Scotland and the North of England and includes an interview with award winning Gateshead singer-songwriter Zoë Gilby. As always the intro and closing music is 'His Imagined Histories' by Vuma Levin. 7Point4Point1 (S. McCallum) Stuart McCallum Theloniousaurus Part 3 (M. Gray) Misha Gray & his Prehistoric Jazz Quintet Zoë Gilby interview part 1 For The Day (Z. Gilby/A. Champion) Living

It's been a long time since my first blog post, mainly for personal reasons, so this review of the second half of 2019 is going to be pretty short. Suffice to say that I was fairly busy on the gig front with a number of excellent performances at Marsden Jazz Festival, my favourite being Dutch trombonist Wolter Wierbos whom I had managed to sign for his first ever UK solo performance. Of the rest, notable mentions go to Tony Kofi (October) and Theo Travis (December) for thei