Singer / composer Gwyneth Herbert will be presenting her “Christmas Letters Special” show on Sunday 20 December at the 606 Club. She gave Sebastian the full picture of a year spent in […]
Watched the Netflix John Coltrane documentary three times and don’t fancy the Taylor Swift story? If you’re running out of jazztastic lockdown TV options then the Qwest TV app may be the […]
“I remain hopeful that the lack of live performance this year will increase the appetite of audiences who have missed seeing live music,” says Wendy Kirkland of Chesterfield Jazz Club. She and […]
For our fourth interview in a series of interviews with jazz promoters and venues – which LJN is publishing in partnership with Nigel Price – we have spoken to Steve Crocker who […]
Mark McKergow has been contributing reviews to London Jazz News since 2014, and we recently published his 100th piece. Here, Mark looks back on some of his personal highlights, and also reflects […]
“I feel I’m a musician and the harp is the instrument.” Following her online gig at the EFG London Jazz Festival, Julie Campiche spoke to Alison Bentley about her Quartet’s new album, […]
Trumpeter and Gondwana Records label owner Matthew Halsall is one of the leading figures on the thriving Manchester jazz scene. He featured on BBC Four’s Jazz 625 last month as part of […]
Guitarist Pete Oxley was looking forward to 2020, the year which marks both his 60th birthday and the twenty-first year of weekly gigs at The Spin, Oxford’s contemporary jazz club. The pandemic […]
“I love him, I think this is very exciting music, and I think the fans are going to love it. We finally found those tapes from Ronnie’s!” says Zev Feldman, Archival Music […]
“The uniqueness of the Global Competition for Jazz Musicians stands in its being fully online, in having a jury representative of the entire world, and a voting system that leaves solely to […]
Jerry & The Pelican System is a project led by young Polish saxophonist and composer Jerzy Mączyński. The avant-garde musician will perform via a stream of a concert recorded in Poznań at […]
A brand new series of livestreams from Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey starts tomorrow, Saturday 14 November 2020. An all-star quartet (Ron Carter, Joe Lovano, Isaiah J. Thompson and […]
Vocalist and songwriter Sarah Gillespie, in partnership with the UK charity Help Musicians, is launching her second collection of limited edition paintings, ‘Ramona’. Feature by Rosa Sawer As in her first collection […]
On Monday 16 November at 12:30pm, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is livestreaming “The Magic of Art Blakey”, a tribute to the legendary jazz figure from an octet directed by Peter Johnstone. […]
Sebastian writes: At a time when a lot of live gigs have been cancelled, there was suddenly a positive buzz coming from Wood Green N22 last week. Musicians who had been booked […]
