Hideaki Ura is a pianist and keyboard player from Kyushu, the southernmost island of Japan. Born in 1994, he has just completed three years’ study at Berklee. His first EP will be […]
A major new album – after eight long years – from the much admired and hugely influential vocalist GRETCHEN PARLATO is something to look forward to in 2021. She and fellow singer […]
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 […]
In the Covid year of the snowy diary, Jazz South, which supports musicians across the southeast and southwest of England, has been busy commissioning showcases for musicians online. As well as new […]
“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 […]
“A brilliant and versatile jazz soloist on french horn and an interesting and questing composer / arranger,” wrote Ian Carr about Jim Rattigan, whose new album When (Three Worlds Records) will be […]
“We should be celebrating the shared values of music-making together – this is everything to do with dialogue and listening and also the emotional commitment,” says Tim Garland of the first 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 […]
Vocalist Katriona Taylor has a new album out, Blind Passion, celebrating the music of blind artists, and including songs by Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Diane Schuur and José Feliciano. The singer, who […]
