Manchester is in for a true summer treat at the end of June, when the Royal Northern College of Music Big Band performs with pianist and composer Nikki Iles and guitarist Mike […]
Nikki Iles, Mike Walker, RNCM Big Band (RNCM Theatre, 30 June)
Ukrainian singer Viktoria Leléka
It is far from easy for an artist to make a major impact amid the hustle and bustle of April’s jazzahead! conference and showcase in Bremen. And yet Ukrainian singer Viktoria Leléka […]
Irene Serra (10th Anniversary of ISQ, Pizza Express Dean Street, 8 June)
ISQ (Irene Serra Quartet) is a jazz group led by vocalist/composer Irene Serra. Originally from Southern Italy, Serra moved to London more than two decades ago, in the first instance to study […]
Chris Batchelor (Zoetic tour, 9 June – 2 July)
After the pandemic twice scuppered the unveiling of some of the most idiomatically diverse new music of his versatile career, trumpeter /composer Chris Batchelor, with the quintet Zoetic, is now finally touring […]
Helena Kay (crowdfunding for new album ‘Golden Sands’)
Saxophonist Helena Kay went to New York in February 2019 and came back in March 2020. Her forthcoming album Golden Sands draws inspiration from her time there. A crowdfunder for the new […]
Judith Owen (new album ‘Come On and Get It’ due Sep 2022)
Welsh-born singer Judith Owen has strong stories to tell in her new album “Come On and Get It”, which will be released in September, and a great team to help her tell […]
10 Ben Monder Tracks I Can’t Do Without…by Ant Law
“Many artists seem to plateau after a while, to “coast” – Ben is NOT one of these. He continues to surprise me,” writes guitarist Ant Law. In the latest of LJN’s series […]
Tom Smith (new album ‘Drifter Days’, with Daniel Bulatkin Trio – Czech Republic)
London-based saxophonist Tom Smith has a new double album ‘Drifter Days’ with a trio led by Czech pianist Daniel Bulatkin. The launch will be at Pizza Express Dean Street on Monday 23 […]
Richard Shelton (Album: ‘An Englishman In Love In LA’)
Vocalist, actor, entertainer. West Midlands-born Richard Shelton has a complex relationship with Frank Sinatra. Captivated from a young age, he developed an affinity with Ol’ Blue Eyes that has lasted a lifetime. He has […]
“Sophisticated Giants. A celebration of the inspirational work of Maxine Gordon” (Jazz Cafe Posk, 4 June)
Women in Jazz Media is “a not for profit organization created to help support and create an equal, diverse, safe and healthy Jazz Industry”. WIJM won the Jazz Media Awards at the […]
Tim Garland – Vigil Songbook (Band on the Wall, 29 May / Ronnie Scott’s, 1 June)
Since his emergence an an artist in the late ‘80s, Tim Garland has firmly established an international reputation as one of Britain’s foremost saxophonists and composers. Some highlights of his career include […]
10 Tracks by Earl Hines I Can’t Do Without…by Liam Noble
In this edition of ’10 Tracks I Can’t Do Without, a series in which jazz musicians do a personal deep dive into the music of their antecedents and idols, Liam Noble considers […]
Canadian Jazz Collective (incl. Lorne Lofsky, Derrick Gardner and Kirk MacDonald) – European tour, May 2022
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 […]
Ten Mike Gibbs tracks I can’t do without…by John L. Walters
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 […]
Alyn Shipton (new book ‘On Jazz’)
Alyn Shipton’s new book On Jazz draws on a weighty archive of interviews he has accumulated in a long career mixing roles as publisher, author, editor, broadcaster and, not least, musician. He explains how […]
