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Huw Warren pictured here playing with Spell Bound (Rob Luft, guitar; Iain Ballamy, saxes) at The Spin Jazz Club, Oxford. 25th April 2025. Photo by Steve Foster.

The album, Adi Shakti, by Indian-Swedish singer, Vidya-Liselotte Sundberg (generally known as just Vidya) and released by Prophone and Naxos Sweden is an intriguing piece of work.  Adi Shakti is [...]

Today’s photo is of Paul Arnold, organizer and bandleader of the Hitchin Jazz Jam. The jam is usually held on the third Tuesday of every month at the Hitchin Market Theatre from 8.00pm on. [...]

A new theme at The Riff will be a featured photograph with minimal commentary. Very much like Instagram. Readers are welcome to submit images they took themselves.  Final selection choices will [...]

A standard Sinatra tribute concert this was not!  That much was confirmed as Mike Lovatt entered the hall with his right arm in a cast. The virtuoso trumpet player of many decades and an alumnus [...]