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 […]
Pianist Deschanel Gordon, it has just been announced, is a finalist in the 2020 BBC Young Jazz Musician 2020. He has been described by one critic (*) as “a percussive player of […]
In normal circumstances, saxophonist John Butcher would be working as improviser and composer, exploring feedback, unusual acoustics and non-concert locations. But his last live performance was on 15 March 2020, and as […]
Pianist DAVID SWAN is a musician who always caught the ear as a student during his time at Guildhall School. Just after graduation in 2018, Ronnie Scott’s booked his trio as support […]
Singer-songwriter-keyboardist Jarrod Lawson, originally from Portland, Oregon has just released his second album Be the Change (Dome Records). Peter Jones writes. I remember the first time I heard Take 6 on the […]
A new book by Peter Jones (*),This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz is published by Equinox later this month. Sebastian interviewed him: What do you see as […]
Still in his early twenties, New York-based multi-instrumentalist Morgan Guerin is rapidly establishing his presence on the scene, playing in the bands of Terri Lyne Carrington, Kassa Overall, Tyshawn Sorey and Esperanza […]
Dr. Duncan Heining’s book George Russell: The Story of an American Composer was originally published in 2009. On 15 October 2020 it was published in a substantially revised new edition. Sebastian interviewed […]
