Polish jazz violinist, saxophonist and composer Michał Urbaniak, an international fusion-jazz icon, has recorded and toured with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis (featuring on the album Tutu) Billy Cobham, George […]
On 22 September, New York pianist Vijay Iyer opens his 2019/20 Wigmore Hall Musicality residency with two concerts (The Transitory Poems with Craig Taborn, and The Evolution Tapes with Mike Ladd. There […]
Up in Birmingham, Tony Dudley-Evans (TDE Promotions) and Andrew Woodhead (Fizzle) have a new programme of experimental music for their autumn season. Peter Bacon asked them about it: Tony introduced the season […]
Sebastian writes: Michael Janisch’s label Whirlwind Recordings will be 10 years old in 2020. As a “pre-celebration” the label has launched a special edition of ten issues on vinyl. A pre-order period […]
Sebastian’s London Column, just published in the new September/October 2019 edition of the German magazine Jazzthetik, concerns the unpredictable and changing circumstances that affect jazz festivals in England, and the way organizers […]
Why was the sound of the Woody Herman Band’s Four Brothers so special – revolutionary even – and why does it still thrill today? With an exclusive Woody Herman’s Four Brothers Reunion happening […]
Emily Saunders has a new single out and will be launching it as well as previewing her next album, Broken, in a series of performances in September and October. But before that […]
Quentin Collins releases a new album, Road Warrior, on Friday 13 September. It’s an album that reflects on the trumpeter’s 25 years playing jazz and celebrates all the musicians out there who […]
The loss last month of a major figure in British jazz, saxophonist and composer DUNCAN LAMONT, is keenly felt. Daniela Clynes, who was one of the four singers who performed at the […]
Drummer Dave Smith’s career as a professional musician has been wide-ranging by any standards. He has had several extended stays in Senegal and the Gambia, and absorbed the Sabar tradition, and also […]
Canadian pianist Ron Davis has chosen the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as the European launch pad for his band SymphRONica’s latest album, UpfRONt. SymphRONica combines a jazz quartet with a string quartet and Rob Adams spoke […]
Buster Birch seems to be turning into one of the busiest jazz educators on the planet. He has as a new series of jazz guides and answered a few questions from Peter […]
Rob Mallows, for LondonJazz News, met up with the members of Spirit Fingers at the start of a mini-heatwave in London. The music later that night at Pizza Express Holborn matched the weather! The band […]
He works incredibly hard, leaps into any situation he likes the sound of, has played in the bands of Dave Douglas and Paul Motian, and is making a rare visit to the […]
The icon of rock and pop music announced some time ago that she was working on a jazz cover album together with a mysterious The Valve Bone Woe Ensemble. Then, at the […]
