The organisers of jazzahead!, the world’s leading jazz trade fair, have put out a reminder that applications for the showcase festival 2022 are still open for just one more week. We also […]
Here is the list of winners at the 2021 Jazz FM Awards, awarded earlier this evening at Under the Bridge in Chelsea: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Tony Bennett GOLD AWARD : Courtney Pine […]
Sebastian writes: I often word-search press releases which I receive for the word “Jazz”. And believe me, it can sometimes be a dispiriting exercise. Not today. The following release from Rupert Burley’s […]
Between 12 and 21 November 2021, the EFG London Jazz Festival will be presenting almost 400 concerts – an impressive feat indeed, but how on earth will you decide what to watch? […]
One of the world’s leading sitar maestros, Nishat Khan, will perform a concert of North Indian Classical Music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 11 November 2021, the eve of the London Jazz […]
South African-raised pianist-singer Estelle Kokot put the period of lockdown to good use and started an online collaboration with percussionist, composer, poet, educationalist and animator Eugene Skeef. Their work together, using his poems as the starting point, started in […]
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – Where Rivers Meet (Digital download review by Mark McKergow) The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and its energetic leader Tommy Smith have produced a dazzling variety of work […]
Falkevik – New Constellations(Drabant Music. Album review by Rob Mallows) Over the last decade, Norway has become a reliable source of great, modern jazz music. Like their North Sea natural gas, Norway’s jazz […]
Chelsea Carmichael – The River Doesn’t Like Strangers (Native Rebel Recordings. Album review by Adam Sieff) Over the last few years since graduating from Trinity Laban Conservatoire, the Manchester-born and London-based tenor […]
KUU! – Artificial Sheep album launch (Kammerspiele, Munich. 21 October 2021. Live review and photos by Ralf Dombrowski(*)) The theatre really is the right place for KUU! This band has a love […]
Chris Potter, Craig Taborn & Nasheet Waits (PizzaExpress Jazz Club, 22 October 2021. Second of two nights. First and second houses. Live Review by Charles Rees) Performing without bass is a familiar […]
Marcin Wasilewski Trio – En attendant (ECM 2677. CD review by Mike Collins) It’s twenty years since the Marcin Wasilewski Trio debuted with ECM, on the first of a series of albums […]
Rob Adams writes: Robin Morton was a hugely influential figure on the folk and traditional music scene in Scotland and across the world, and yet if he’d followed his initial musical dream, […]
Fiona Ross – Red Flags and High Heels Singer and pianist Fiona Ross returns with an album of fourteen new tracks on which she takes composition, production, and arrangement credits. Ross was […]
Lionel Loueke – Close Your Eyes (Sounderscore SO 005. Album Review by Sebastian Scotney) There is so much to enjoy in Close Your Eyes, guitarist Lionel Loueke’s first ever album of standards, […]
