Today, 29 April 2021 would have been the 99th birthday of Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron (“Toots”) Thielemans (1922-2016) writes Juliette Kay, and plans for the centenary next year are already taking shape […]
Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints – Other Worlds (Greenleaf GRE-CD-1084. Album Review by Alison Bentley) Not footprints, but Sound Prints: this US quintet led by Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas […]
Lukas Ligeti – That Which Has Remained…That Which Will Emerge… (col legno music. Album review by Fiona Mactaggart) That Which Has Remained…That Which Will Emerge… is the latest album from Austrian-American composer, […]
Voting will take place online this year. Juliette Kay reports: The deadline for voting in this year’s Parliamentary Jazz Awards will be at midnight on 14 May 2021 and anyone may vote. […]
Pandemic or no pandemic, London-based gig promoters Mood Indigo have not let the grass grow under their feet. With a series of streamed events over the last year, co-organisers Terence Collie and […]
Cultural Connections Africa and Serious are announcing a series of streamed events, writes Juliette Kay Streams from Africa will present emerging voices from several countries within the continent, focusing on showcasing contemporary […]
Wollny – Parisien – Lefebvre – Lillinger – XXXX (ACT 9924-2 . Album review by Jon Turney) The ACT label has built a roster of artists that means you should expect the unexpected […]
The visionary musical ideas of Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman and Anthony Braxton meet the spontaneous creativity of the Edinburgh-based Russian artist Maria Rud in one of the architectural gems of […]
Moses Boyd (Livestream from the Barbican, Sunday 18 April. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Moses Boyd presented a set of material from his Mercury Prize nominated album Dark Matter with an augmented version […]
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey – Uneasy (ECM 3520696. Review by John Bungey) If I was one third of a piano trio (which luckily for the health of British […]
The 7Virtual Jazz Club is a global online competition for both professional and amateur musicians and/or bands. London Jazz News interviewed the organiser Valerio Pappi last November here. This year’s competition is […]
Norman Willmore – Alive & Well at The Muckle Roe Hall (Available as a download or LP from Bandcamp (link below). Album Review by Patrick Hadfield) Not quite but almost as far […]
Stefano Di Battista – Morricone Stories (Warner Music 9029504424. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) composed more than a hundred classical works and more than 400 TV and movie scores, including […]
Nishla Smith is an Australian-born jazz singer. As a current City Music Foundation (CMF) artist, she will be performing in Bart’s Great Hall on 19 May as part of the CMF lunchtime […]
The Europe Jazz Network has just announced the winner for its 2021 Adventurous Programming award, the award’s tenth year, writes Juliette Kay The process behind selecting the winner was in two stages. […]
