Lockdown has seen many UK jazz musicians struggling. But in Monmouthshire they’ve been paid their full fee at a ‘virtual’…
Tommaso Starace Quartet at Black Mountain Jazz, Abergavenny
November 26, 2019Anglo-Italian saxophonist Tommaso Starace has long been standard-bearer for Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley, who himself has long been resident in…
Tristan, Black Mountain Jazz, Abergavenny
October 2, 2018A healthy musical culture is one that never leaves its historical achievements behind as though they counted for nothing. At…
Wall2Wall Jazz Festival, Abergavenny
September 6, 2018There’s a sense in which the current Brecon Jazz Festival and Black Mountain Jazz’s Wall2Wall festival at Abergavenny are remnants…
Wendy Kirkland Quartet: Black Mountain Jazz Club
May 1, 2018Chris Byars, the New York saxophonist, composer and band leader, was displaying the jazz musician’s hard-nosed realism when he opined…
Jeremy Hardy tour comes to Abergavenny
April 23, 2018Following a sellout tour last year, Jeremy Hardy hits the road in 2018 with his new show, which sees him…
Matteo Marfoglia: Creating Omertà, Roots, NDCWales
November 9, 2017Matteo Marfoglia Omertà is a code of honor that places importance on silence, non-cooperation with authorities, and non-interference in the illegal…
Not About Heroes, Flying Bridge Theatre Company, Borough Theatre, Abergavenny
September 26, 2017There are at least two stories going on in Stephen Macdonald’s 35-year-old drama about the Great War and its effect…
Geoff Eales and Ashley John Long, A History of Jazz Piano, Melville Centre, Abergavenny
September 25, 2017The history of jazz is the history of jazz musicians. Not composers, in a sense which separates the two. Jazz…
iCoDaCo (International Contemporary Dance Collective), BABULUS, Dance Splash, Abergavenny
February 17, 2017After extensive R&D last year in both Sweden and Scotland, this third project by the biannual dance group iCoDaCo,…