LONDON — Blindfolded listeners might swear they were listening to vintage American blues. Opening their eyes, they’d see Emanuele “Manny” Fizzotti, an exquisite Italian blues guitarist wowing blues-loving crowds all around London. The only thing that might have given Manny away as Italian at the Ain’t Nothin’ But Blues Bar in London May 9 would have…
Category: London Jazz Bands
Stunning, soaring solos from Ant Law
THE VORTEX, London — We’re talking solos that leave the audience slack-jawed in amazement, only to quickly recover and roar with applause. The Ant Law Quintet is awesome together and but monstrously mind-boggling in their solos. When I got to the Vortex, one of Downbeat magazine’s top 150 jazz venues in the world, a flea could not…