The Recipients of the 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Awards are announced: WINNERS Jazz Vocalist of the Year Cherise Adams-Burnett Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year Sarah Tandy Jazz Album of the Year ‘Finding Home’ […]
Tony Dudley-Evans writes Lockdown has given me the opportunity to relax, to think. And – I’ll admit it – I have enjoyed that… …and I have been enjoying live streamed events such […]
Sara Gazarek is a vocalist and educator, originally from Seattle and based in Los Angeles. Her 2019 album Thirsty Ghost, her seventh as leader, was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album. First […]
“How did it feel?”. “Unreal.” Italian-Swiss pianist Lorenzo De Finti, a good friend of LJN, placed this photo on Facebook on Saturday 27 June, with the caption “Safely distanced. Very careful. It’s […]
Brad Mehldau – Suite: April 2020 (Nonesuch. Vinyl/ Streaming. Review by Dick Hovenga*) Lockdown can also be a source of inspiration. Forced to stay at home, pianist Brad Mehldau wrote twelve new […]
Dave Glasser – Hypocrisy Democracy (Here Tiz Music. CD Review by Sam Norris) Saxophonist and flautist Dave Glasser is known on the New York jazz scene and beyond as a musician deeply […]
For Sebastian’s regular London Column in the German magazine JAZZTHETIK(*), he spoke to Norma Winstone in mid-May, to discover that she is working on a new album project… In a world […]
The George Colligan Trio – Live in Arklow (ubuntu music UBU0055. CD Review by Jon Carvell) To the uninitiated, Arklow Methodist Church in County Wicklow might not seem the obvious place to […]
Greg Foat – Symphonie Pacifique (Strut Records. CD Review by John Bungey) Jazz is of course not normally the domain of symphonies, pacifique or otherwise. There’s certainly a grandness to some of […]
Esperanza Spalding, Fred Hersch – Live at The Village Vanguard (Rough Mix EP/ Benefit Recording for the Jazz Foundation of America. Review by Alison Bentley) A fleeting chance to share an intimate […]
The Windrush Suite by Renell Shaw (Streamed by the Vortex Jazz Club. 22 June 2020. Review by Alison Bentley) The Windrush Suite was streamed to mark the second National Windrush Day, remembering […]
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow has announced the winners of its 2020 Jazz Awards, writes Rob Adams: Prizes of £300 each are awarded every year to students excelling in three […]
The world’s largest jazz festival has announced its plans. The full programme is HERE. This year’s Special Digital Edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal will consist of: – livestream […]
The Canadian trombonist, pianist and composer/bandleader Hugh Fraser has died at the age of just 61. He had been grappling with cancer over three years. Tributes that have been written in the […]
Pianist Andrew McCormack’s first solo album Solo is about to be released. Feature by John Fordham: In October 2006, three months after a then little-known 28 year-old London pianist called Andrew McCormack […]
