Royal Birmingham Conservatoire/ Siena Jazz-Accademia Nazionale Del Jazz Ensembles (Parabola Arts Centre – Cheltenham Jazz Festival. 30 April 2022. Review by Peter Slavid) One of the unique features of the Cheltenham Jazz […]
Alyn Shipton – On Jazz: A Personal Journey(Cambridge University Press, out in hardback 5 May. Book review by John Bungey) Alyn Shipton has lived the jazz life. No, not that one, the one […]
LJN continues to log and to publish the correspondence instigated when Nigel Price and 68 other signatories wrote to the DCMS, and here we publish a letter from John Spellar MP, on […]
Ronan Perrett Trio – Who Owns the Sky? (Fresh Sound New Talent – FSNT 634. CD review by Graham Spry) Cornish-born and London-based alto saxophonist Ronan Perrett has been an active member […]
The world needs more Canada, as the saying has it. The May 2022 European tour by the seven-piece Canadian Jazz Collective will give a rare opportunity to hear seven of Canada’s top […]
Lucia Cadotsch quartet, Zoe Rahman quintet Cheltenham Jazz Festival. 29 April 2022. Parabola Arts Centre. Live Reviews by Jon Turney) Friday evening saw two Cheltenham festival returnees in new ensembles who each […]
Serious has announced the next cohort of participants in its Take Five Talent Development programme. They are Charlotte Keeffe – Trumpet, flugelhorn, piano, voiceDominic Canning – Piano/ SynthMarcus Joseph – Alto SaxophoneMidori Jaeger – Cello / Voice […]
John Watson took this glorious photo at Cheltenham. The panoramic shot catches Gregory Porter, Paloma Faith (centre), with Joe Stilgoe, Nym, Miss Baby Sol, Vanessa Haynes, Tommy Blaize, Adi Oasis, Georgia Cecile […]
“The Jazz”, which takes place downstairs at the King’s Head in Crouch End on Sunday afternoons, is going through a tricky transition. There are contact details (a Facebook group and an email […]
John L. Walters writes: Michael Gibbs (b. 1937) is one of the world’s great jazz composer/arrangers, who came to prominence in the late 1960s London jazz scene. Over the past five decades […]
Sebastian attended the awards ceremony for the Deutscher Jazzpreis 2022 at the Metropol-Theater in Bremen, on the eve of jazzahead! 2022. We list the winners in all categories ( the full list […]
A Hammond-dedicated venue, with its own instrument in place will open at the Bohemia in North Finchley on Sunday 8 May. The gigs will take place on Sundays twice a month, with […]
Jo Harrop (Ronnie Scott’s. 25 April 2022. Review by Sebastian Scotney) Conventional wisdom has it that there is one – and only one – really significant date in the modern history of […]
A quick inspection of the 2022 Proms schedule just released reveals (so far*) just two jazz-related events: 28 August. The South African Jazz Songbook (LINK) “Celebrated South African trumpeter, conductor and SAMA […]
One of LJN’s regular contributors Andrew Cartmel was script editor of Doctor Who, and has written a series of crime novels about the “Vinyl Detective”. He (and his cat Jade) were the […]
