
Claude Monet: London, Houses of Parliament. The Sun Shining through the Fog (1904)Public Domain Sebastian reports: Voting is now open for the 2018 (APPJAG) Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Entries are open to anyone with the […]
Claude Monet: London, Houses of Parliament. The Sun Shining through the Fog (1904)Public Domain Sebastian reports: Voting is now open for the 2018 (APPJAG) Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Entries are open to anyone with the […]
Luca Manning (Winner: Rising Star category), Fionna Duncan (Winner: Lifetime Achievement Award),Georgia Cecile (Nominee: Best Vocalist) and Seonaid Aitken (Winner: Best Vocalist and her band ‘Rose Room’ were also winners in the Best […]
Sebastian writes: Concidentally, two influential and valuable sources of comment on the jazz scene in London, The Blue Moment and EZHMag both announced almost simultaneously that they were, in one case “saying goodbye […]
Jazz 1080 in productionPhoto credit: Ian Davies Peter Bacon reports: Remember Jazz 625? Well it’s been recreated as Jazz 1080 as part of a research project at Birmingham City University. This academic […]
Australian saxophonist Amy Dicksonusing the page-turning pedals of the Gvidoat the Abbey Road launch Sebastian writes: First the good news. A new sheet music e-reader from Japan called GVIDO, in homage to […]
Sebastian reports: The 16th Mas I Mas Festival in Barcelona will run from 31 July to 31 August. The Festival takes in five venues: The Teatro Coliseum, Barcelona’s main jazz club the […]
The British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) held their May 2018 Event on 23 May – a panel discussion about music magazines, “The Rise and Fall and Rise of Music Mags”, chaired […]
Rymden. L-R:Dan Berglund, Bugge Wesseltoft, Magnus ÖströmPublicity photo Turner Sims Southampton’s programme for the latter part of the year has Peter Bacon planning his route south: If you’re looking for an exciting […]
Mateusz Smoczyński, winner of the 2016 Seifert CompetitionPhoto credit Paweł Mazur, Zbigniew Seifert Foundation Mary James writes: The semi-finalists in the 3rd International Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition (Krakow and Lusławice) have […]
Zara McFarlanePublicity picture supplied Peter Bacon reports: The Rye Intl Jazz & Blues Festival has announced a few big names for its seventh outing this summer (24-27 August). Jazz and blues forms […]
Manfred Eicher at the Royal Academy of Music Phone snap by AJ Dehany An Audience with Manfred Eicher (Royal Academy of Music 12 February 2018. Report by AJ Dehany) Introduction ECM (Edition […]