Jane Cornwell

London

Writer and Critic at Freelance

Journalist, writer, compere. jazz/global music/arts stuff. Travel, sometimes. UK & Aus.

Articles

Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short - Everything Jazz

3 weeks ago | everythingjazz.com | Jane Cornwell

There are musicians who allocate time – say, six months or a year – to write an album. Then there are artists so prolific, so filled with music and ideas, that new compositions flow freely, surfacing to find their identity, but not always their home. So, when “something flipped along the way” and it occurred to Joshua Redman that the young working quartet he’d assembled for the world tour behind “where are we”, his 2023 Blue Note debut, was of a calibre beyond his expectations, he knew that A.
How luxury perfumier Renaud Salmon spends his downtime in Oman

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Jane Cornwell

May 13, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Renaud Salmon is the chief creative officer of the high-end Omani fragrance house Amouge. He lives in Muscat, Oman, with his wife and two children, aged 11 and eight. Loading... or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
WOMADelaide, Australia, March 7–10 2025 | Songlines

1 month ago | songlines.co.uk | Jane Cornwell

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 By Jane Cornwell Jane Cornwell picks out six sweet sets from WOMADelaide in Australia, featuring Trio da Kali, Duo Ruut, Yemi Alade and more Yemi Alade (photo by Dianne Brooks) Thanks for visiting the Songlines website, your guide to an extraordinary world of music and culture.
Maya Delilah: The Long Way Round - Everything Jazz

2 months ago | everythingjazz.com | Jane Cornwell

Maya Delilah is sitting cross-legged on the floor, her back against a couch, her Maton electric guitar across her lap. Flames from a dozen white candles flicker as her fingers dance along the fretboard, her technical dexterity and easy versatility impressive, even on this time-snatched Instagram post.
Gerald Clayton: Ones and Twos - Everything Jazz

2 months ago | everythingjazz.com | Jane Cornwell

“When I set out to play, I want to make sure that I’m serving the music,” says six-times Grammy-nominated pianist, composer and educator Gerald Clayton, sitting before a wall colonised by artwork at his home in Los Angeles. “That involves playing with truth and honesty, not letting any theory or premeditated thing lead the way. I enjoy the uncertainty of composing, the looking for something new and unprecedented.”“Has this been done before? Maybe not literally,” he muses.
Interview with Sasha Berliner: "Many of us are involved in modern jazz that avoids categorisation, that maybe isn’t even jazz"

2 months ago | jazzwise.com | Jane Cornwell

The vibraphonist and composer Sasha Berliner is Zooming me from onboard a ship in a port in Mexico. There’s an abstract painting on the wall behind her, and sunlight dancing along her arms, which are tattooed with filigree leaves and flowers. “I’ve never done one of these before,” says the LA-based artist, 26, of her locale, a Jazz Cruise hosted by trumpeter Chris Botti.
Omani perfume house Amouage releases its new fragrances, The Essences

Mar 5, 2025 | afr.com | Jane Cornwell

Mar 6, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Time passes slowly inside the ancient chalk caves of Reims, the unofficial capital of the Champagne wine-growing region in northeastern France. Deep underground, in a noirish, cathedral-like space flanked by rows of ageing Dom Ruinart cuvée, the vibe is laidback, the temperature a rock-steadied 12 degrees.
Theo Croker's Dream Manifest at the Barbican review: jazz, just not as we know it

Feb 17, 2025 | standard.co.uk | Jane Cornwell

"If they have to rename the Gulf of Mexico then they better call it the Gulf of Miles Davis!" Grammy-nominated composer, producer and trumpet ace Theo Croker always been an ideas man. Blk2Life, his sixth album, aimed to send “coded frequencies to activate sleeping ancestral DNA”. Love Quantum, its 2022 follow-up, reframed modern African American music with a futuristic aesthetic, soaring from neo-soul, hip-hop, R&B and electro-grooves into its own space jazz atmosphere.
Theo Croker's Dream Manifest at the Barbican review: jazz, just not as we know it

Feb 17, 2025 | aol.co.uk | Jane Cornwell

"If they have to rename the Gulf of Mexico then they better call it the Gulf of Miles Davis!" Grammy-nominated composer, producer and trumpet ace Theo Croker always been an ideas man. Blk2Life, his sixth album, aimed to send “coded frequencies to activate sleeping ancestral DNA”. Love Quantum, its 2022 follow-up, reframed modern African American music with a futuristic aesthetic, soaring from neo-soul, hip-hop, R&B and electro-grooves into its own space jazz atmosphere.
NYJO: The Fire Next Time - A Tribute To James Baldwin

Feb 17, 2025 | jazzwise.com | Jane Cornwell

Review NYJO: The Fire Next Time - A Tribute To James Baldwin Jane Cornwell "You have to go the way your blood beats," said James Baldwin, the American novelist, playwright, poet and activist who did exactly that. No matter how he lived his life - in Harlem, Paris, in the church, in defiance - he remained authentic, eschewing labels, exploring meaning, speaking truth to power. Baldwin's words had rhythm, offered freedom.