LondonJazz News: Tell me about your new Quartet. The combination of tenor and trombone is quite unusual – Sonny Rollins and JJ Johnson, Dave Holland with Chris Potter and Robin Eubanks… Calum […]
Guy Barker’s annual big band Christmas spectacular has become a fixture in the jazz calendar. This year’s, the fourth, features vocalists Grammy-winner Kurt Elling and Quincy Jones collaborator Vula Malinga, clarinettist Giacomo […]
The latest edition of the exciting, musician-led Kennington mini-fest, which includes tributes to two jazz greats, features some top international players. Martin Chilton previews the festival for LondonJazz News: The now annual […]
With over 70 events spanning early and modern, soul, funk, blues, gypsy, electronic, and rock-influenced sounds, the fifth Cambridge International Jazz Festival celebrates jazz in all its diversity. Rachel Coombes previews the […]
LondonJazz News: What prompted you to give up orchestral playing? Jim Rattigan: I’d always had a passion for jazz, and played a bit on the piano. Playing the French horn is what […]
The Sounds of Denmark Festival at Pizza Express later this month will offer a fresh insight into the state of jazz in a country with a fine tradition of the music. Martin […]
The latest of the Jazz Repertory Company’s Cadogan Hall recreations of defining moments in jazz brings an historic big band battle back to life. Pete Long explained its significance to Peter Vacher: […]
Vocalist and songwriter Sue Rynhart is releasing a single We Are on Time (Flower Seeds) ahead of her appearances at this autumn’s Galway, Cork and London Jazz Festivals. She spoke from Inis […]
ARQ (the Alison Rayner Quintet) are about to launch their third album, Short Stories, and will be touring over the coming months, including two London dates: The Albany in Deptford on 29 […]
Vocalist and songwriter Georgia Mancio hosts her 2019 Hang at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho on 9 – 11 October. She spoke to John Fordham about collaboration, heritage, lyrics, multiple realities […]
