Tickets are now on sale for a major London Jazz Festival headlining concert for the Aruan Ortiz & Michael Janisch Quintet (featuring Greg Osby) at the famous Purcell Room of the Southbank Center in London. This event will be the official European CD release launch for the band for
Another review today for Zhenya Strigalev’s release ‘Smiling Organizm’ has just appeared on Peter Bacon’s ‘Jazz Breakfast’ which is a popular blog site in the UK. Click here to read. CLICK HERE to visit ‘Smiling Organizm‘ page which will release in just a few days!! (June 4th worldwide).
A strong showing of three WWR artists (George Crowley, Euan Burton, and Zhenya Strigalev) in the June 2012 issue of Jazzwise Magazine— all three get great reviews, and Zhenya also get’s a featured article for his album ‘Smiling Organizm’ which launches next week. Zhenya is always full of unique
Partikel, one of the UK’s most talked about new bands, has just received a great review by the popular Danish jazz blog site ‘JazzNYT’ for their inaugural WWR Jan ’12 release ‘Cohesion.’ This is a shared review alongside the world renown trio ‘Fly’ so the guys are pretty excited to
London based Russian alto saxophonist Zhenya Strigalev is about to launch his debut WWR album ‘Smiling Organizm’ in just over 1 week from today. Here’s our original news post on this exciting release, which features an all star cast of musicians in bass titans Larry Grenadier and Tim Lefebvre, the
London based saxophonist-on-the-rise George Crowley has had a great month– he’s released his debut album (see little reddish-orange monster to the left), and since its release has received universal acclaim from a large swath of the major jazz press across the UK. Just yesterday he received a 4 star review
Whirlwind Recordings is going places………… We’ve had a great month so far releasing albums by George Crowley and Euan Burton (both have had GREAT support so far), but also we’re very exciting to say that our label is going places in a big way! We’ve just signed up brand
WWR founder, and first call London-based American electric/acoustic bassist Michael Janisch has a busy summer ahead of him not only as a player, but as an educator, appearing in Spain, Ireland and Scotland for a number of renown summer jazz camps. Of special note, Janisch will teach alongside legendary
The Aruan Ortiz and Michael Janisch quintet feat. Greg Osby is releasing their debut album ‘Banned in London’ this NOV, and in celebration they will be embarking on a major European tour, with an official launch event as headliners performing at London Jazz Festival. The band will appear at one
Legendary drummer Jeff Williams, who has been performing professionally for over 40 years, was recently seen and heard touring in the UK with his NYC based quartet this month and made a big impact playing music from his highly acclaimed album ‘Another Time.’ Here is a great 4 star,