**** Cellist Shirley Smart has helped extend the number of unusual instruments that find a home in jazz, but she…
Black Mountain Jazz virtual festival at Abergavenny
October 8, 2020Lockdown has seen many UK jazz musicians struggling. But in Monmouthshire they’ve been paid their full fee at a ‘virtual’…
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…
Chop Idols at Black Mountain Jazz
March 27, 2018Miles Kington famously remarked that he travelled from Wales to London for jazz, only to discover that jazz had decamped…