Liane Carroll

Leading lights from the UK jazz scene come together at The Brunswick in Brighton for a night of rousing songs and speeches ahead of the General Election

Consummate performer and every singer's vocal idol, Liane Carroll, sidles up to the piano, still in coat and scarf, and starts chatting and joking with her audience about the ‘Cassandra incident' earlier in the week.

Liane Carroll celebrated, life, jazz and the unrestrained joy of music making on Friday night in the atmospheric, vaulting and somehow still cosy, converted church that is the Salisbury Arts Centre.

A Liane Carroll gig on the other hand offers a roller coaster ride of emotions: joy pain hope loss.

For all the experimentation and eccentricity featured at this year’s programme of Belfast’s Brilliant Corners festival, the legendary pianist Liane Carroll was a soothing salve of classic jazz executed flawlessly. But this was anything but a stuffy recital.