Pizza Express have announced their decision that the Maidstone PizzaExpress restaurant and music venue in Earl Street, which has been hosting music events for three decades, will not be re-opening, citing deterioration […]
Peter Bacon reports: Remember Match&Fuse? Those pan-European tours and festivals of bands with a bit of an edge combining to do fresh and new things? They’re back. While live events – hot, […]
ECM has announced that Pat Metheny’s eleven albums for ECM from the period 1976-1984 are available in HD Audio, as from 31 July 2020. “The main premise in digitizing the Pat Metheny […]
” I still feel the same way now as when I first heard Annie Ross 37 years ago,” writes Anita Wardell. Anita’s tribute begins and ends with excerpts of vocalese that have […]
It is ten years today since the jazz community woke up in shock to the news of the death in a road accident of Chris Dagley. We published THIS . Re-reading the […]
Arts Council England (ACE) reopens National Lottery Project Grant funding on 22 July, with a budget of £59.8 million available until April 2021. Arts Council England state that they “have prioritised reopening […]
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival moves online for its 43rd edition, with new sets recorded during lockdown, solo home videos, selections from the festival’s video archive, talks, conferences, and late-night DJ sets, […]
A transatlantic cooperation has created a Scottish tribute to Nelson Mandela, writes Rob Adams. The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra is not known as a singles band, having now released eleven internationally […]
Tim Whitehead remembers the percussionist Chris Fletcher who passed away at the age of 68 on Thursday 9 July. The thing about Chris Fletcher was he had a line for every […]
Johannes Dickbauer and Youenn Rohaut were both awarded Second Prize in the 4th Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition. There was no First Prize winner. This year the competition was held online, 8-10 […]
Sebastian writes: Faced with the challenge of how to adapt its educational work during lockdown, NYJO has put a brand new resource online. The Virtual Academy enables participants (of all ages!) to […]
Serious and the EFG London Jazz Festival have put out what amounts to a holding press release – with no specific names or venues mentioned – concerning their plans for the EFG […]
Andrew Cartmel remembers Ennio Morricone . He is gone. I can scarcely believe it. He was 91 and I guess I thought he’d live forever. There is a sequence in Cinema Paradiso […]
This year the Original UK Jazz Summer School, nominated for a 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Award, is organising a 3-day course . The course will feature a full programme of online sessions open […]
Sebastian writes: Trombonist and educator Patrick Kelly, who died peacefully on 11 June at the age of 88, was the founder of the Berkshire Youth Jazz Orchestra, later Pendulum, and a hugely […]
