A year ago a London-based jazz singer caught up in the Windrush scandal was threatened with deportation. Bumi Thomas’s new release reflects the struggles that followed, says John Bungey. Last June Bumi […]
Frank Griffith writes in tribute to Lennie Niehaus: Lennie Niehaus, alto saxophonist, composer/arranger and scorer of twelve Clint Eastwood films has died at the age of 91. A consummate polymath of the […]
BBC Young Musician 2020 is now open for applications. The final will be “presented as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival” in November. It is also announced that the finalists will play […]
Saxophonist Don Weller, who had been unwell for some time, passed away in his native Croydon on Saturday 30 May 2020 at the age of 79. Saxophonist Art Themen, a good friend […]
Mary James writes: Usually the auditions and finals of the Seifert Jazz Violin Competition take place in the beautiful surroundings of the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music in Lusławice, Poland, but […]
Sebastian writes. We congratulate Raimund Meisenberger of the Passauer Neue Zeitung on his scoop, reporting what we believe to be the first jazz festival in the world since lockdown. He reports that […]
The nominations are announced for the 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. The recipients will be announced on 30 June. Thank you to all those who nominated LJN for the Jazz Media Award this […]
“With the Club closed and no idea when we will be able to reopen, this new initiative is critical to the 606’s survival.” Steve Rubie has just announced the openig of the […]
Rob Adams remembers drummer Jimmy Cobb who passed away yesterday, 24 May 2020, at the age of 91 When Jimmy Cobb left the studio after the second and final session for Miles […]
The passing of John Cumming on Sunday 17 May is deeply felt in the jazz community. Ros Rigby, a good and loyal friend for over fifty years, remembers him: I met John […]
Like other jazz musicians around the world, saxophonist Alex Woods, guitarist Sam Slater and bassist Chris Mapp have been adapting to the new world order. Their solution is Around The Houses, an […]
John Fordham pays tribute to Tony Allen. Of all the popular sounds of the 20th century fired up by the spontaneity and rhythmic creativity of jazz, Afrobeat’s morphing of that music into […]
Sebastian writes: The Jazz@MorleyCollege series had hardly got started…. As the Head of Jazz Flavio Li Vigni explains: “We had just managed to run the first concert of the series before canceling […]
“An April without jazzahead! is just not the same,” say the team from jazzahead!, echoing the sentiments of many…, in a newsletter on would have been the opening morning of the […]
