Chris SharkeyPhoto credit: Alex BonneyThe new CD from experimental guitarist and electronic artist CHRIS SHARKEY & creative drummer MARK SANDERS is a 50-minute live recording that challenges expectations about improvised music and […]
Calum GourlayPhoto credit: Patrick HadfieldBassist Calum Gourlay has a new quartet, which will make its debut at the Vortex on 30 January 2019. Interview by Sebastian: LondonJazz News: Is this your first group […]
Positioning overheads can be trickyPhoto credit: Ru CookMark Wingfield is a mixing and mastering engineer at Heron Island Studio. He has three DownBeat Masterpiece albums under his belt, a Jazzwise Best Release […]
Flavio Li Vigni, Head of Jazz at Morley College London, has instigated a new monthly Friday late afternoon and evening jazz series starting on 25 January 2019. The full list for this […]
Oene van GeelPhoto credit: © Govert Driessen from Oene van Geel’s websiteDutch violist Oene van Geel and Scottish multi-instrumentalist Fraser Fifield lead LoLanders, a new sextet that makes its debut at Celtic […]
Matt HolbornPhoto credit: David ChoiJazz violinist Matt Holborn has been interviewing other jazz violinists and releasing podcasts of their conversations. He has just released the 12th interview, with the highest-profile interviewee so […]
Jessica RadcliffePhoto credit: Léa L’AttentiveVocalist JESSICA RADCLIFFE was the lead singer with NYJO from 2012 to 2014, following on in that role after Emma Smith. However, her debut album, has nothing of […]
Charles McPhersonPhoto credit: © Antonio Porcar Cano “I wonder what the world would be like if artists did what they really wanted, with no regard for money. I have, and you pay […]
The Jive AcesPhoto Credit: Sandra VijandiJive and swing band The Jive Aces have been honing their irrepressibly joyous sound and getting audiences on their feet for over 20 years. Ahead of their biggest […]
Dave O’Higgins and Max Ionata at the 606 Clubwith Luca Santaniello and Ross StanleyPhoto still from videoTenors of Our Time is a new album in which two British jazz musicians, Dave O’Higgins […]
“Music is a healing force” – Eddie HendersonPhoto credit: © Mochles SimawiLegendary American jazz trumpeter Eddie Henderson has performed in The UK several times this year, including his two unforgettable London performances: […]
Orphy RobinsonPublicity photoThe Shape of Jazz to Come is a two-day mini-festival taking place at the Vortex Jazz Club on 18-19 December. A high quality billing includes Meg Morley Trio, the final […]
Yolanda Ingley IIPublicity pictureSinger/songwriter Yolanda Ingley II lives in Melbourne Australia. She grew up in the UK, living in London in the 1970s; she still visits regularly with her music and life […]
Simon ThackerPublicity PhotoGuitar virtuoso, composer and teacher SIMON THACKER hails from East Lothian. He has a deep involvement in Indian music, and this month sees the release of an ambitious new (double) […]
ICP member Mary Oliver (violin, centre)with Ernst Glerum (bass, left) and Tristan Honsinger (cello, right)Publicity photo by Francesca PatellaOne of Europe’s most enduring and characterful ensembles, the Instant Composers Pool (ICP) orchestra […]
