Over a long and illustrious career, trumpeter Marvin Stamm has played with many jazz icons including Stan Kenton and Frank Sinatra. He spoke to Laura Thorne about those greats, about his big […]
Mark Wingfield is a mixing and mastering engineer at Heron Island Studio. He has three DownBeat Masterpiece albums under his belt, a Jazzwise Best Release Of The Year, and over 300 rave […]
Sebastian’s regular London Column appears today in the July-August issue of the German magazine JAZZTHETIK (available throughout the German-speaking world). Here is the new column in English on the theme of…Somerset: Question: […]
The International Guitar Foundation’s four-day Guitar Summit at Kings Place covers the full range of fret activity, from classical to sophisticated pop, taking in lute music, jazz and flamenco along the way. Rob […]
It’s “both a consolidation of the first album and something a bit different”. Pianist, singer and lyricist Wendy Kirkland tells Rob Adams about her new album, The Music’s On Me, and why […]
Could Django Bates be about to say farewell to his long-standing Charlie Parker-dedicated project? If so, it won’t be before he joins his Belovèd trio to that other legendary jazz Parker, Evan, […]
Having gathered around him some of today’s finest young players based in Europe and the US, the London-based composer and tenor saxophonist Alex Merritt has spent the past week touring some of […]
This feature/interview with Alex Roth written by Tomasz Furmanek was first published in Polish in the June issue of Jazz Forum magazine. Tomasz has kindly provided LondonJazz News with this English translation: […]
Guitarists Libor Smoldas from Prague and Nigel Price from Surrey have six UK dates between 17 and 22 June 2019, in Swansea, Swindon, Bristol and the Isle of Wight, bookended by London. Sebastian […]
Certaldo Alto Publicity photo from certaldo-info.com GMF Tuscany 2019 with the Scott Hamilton / Champian Fulton Quartet will be an intimate jazz festival and course in a magical and historic location. It will […]
Hermine Deurloo, Rembrandt Frerichs and a flying harmonica Publicity photo Harmonica virtuoso Hermine Deurloo appears in a quartet with pianist Rembrandt Frerichs on the second day of a three-day representation of Dutch-based […]
Tristan Publicity Photo Amsterdam acid jazz band Tristan are building a strong reputation in the UK as a live act. Following enthusiastically received gigs including Pizza Express Holborn, Harrogate Festival and Black […]
An outdoor stage in Montreal Photo credit: MIJF/ Frederique Menard-Aubin Peter Slavid writes Why it sometimes has to be live! Some months ago I was sent a CD by London Jazz News, […]
Eli DegibriPhoto Credit: Yossi Zwecker Israeli saxophonist Eli Degibri makes his Ronnie Scott’s debut on Friday 17 May with a quartet of young fellow Israelis who are following Degibri’s example of going […]
John Fordham: “deep knowledge, constant freshness and undulled enthusiasm.”Photo supplied Sebastian writes (*): John Fordham of the Guardian celebrated his 70th birthday early in 2018, but even without the excuse of a […]
