Captain of the Herts Jazz team: Clark TraceyPhoto from 2016. Credit: Melody McLaren Peter Bacon reports: Herts Jazz, having moved towns and days, stays in St Albans but, from April, is back […]
Snarky PuppyPublicity picture Peter Bacon reports: The Snarkies are busy Pups. Between April and November they will play, if my maths have not deserted me, 74 dates (!) including a load around […]
On 23 March with Gary Husband: Joachim KühnPhoto credit: ACt Music / Steven Haberland Sebastian writes:The full line-up for the tenth edition of the Pizza Express Steinway Two Piano Festival is now […]
Surge OrchestraPublicity picture Peter Bacon reports: The one-day musical extravaganza with Sid Peacock’s Surge Orchestra at its heart is back for a third spring showing on Saturday 27 April 2019. As before […]
Peter Bacon reports: This is just in from The Musicians’ Company: “The Musicians’ Company is delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 Dankworth and Eddie Harvey Jazz Arranger Awards.“The winner of […]
The big names taking partPublicity image Peter Bacon reports: A fundraising gala concert is being organised to support the National Youth Jazz Collective. It’s called Jazz For The Future and it’s at […]
Adrien BrandeisPublicity photo by Florence Ducommun(supplied for use by competition organisers) Sebastian writes.The second winner of the LetterOne ‘Rising Stars’ Jazz Award has been announced. The inaugural winner of the competition last […]
Roscoe Mitchell (foreground) and Don Moye. Berlin 2018Photo credit and © Ralf Dombrowski Sebastian writes: The jurors of the 2019 Jazz World Photo competition have announced the 30 finalists, out of a […]
Joshua RedmanPhoto: © Jay Blakesberg Peter Bacon reports: The line-up for this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival (1-6 May 2019), one of the biggest outside London, has been announced, and although the move […]
Winners at the 2018 AwardsPhoto from JazzFM The nominations for the Jazz FM Awards 2019 are announced. (Full list below)The Awards ceremony with live acts yet to be announced will take place […]
Peter Bacon reports: Headlining this year’s Leeds Jazz Festival is saxophonist Andy Sheppard, who will be appearing with the Norwegian piano trio led by Espen Eriksen. Also on the bill is Sheppard’s […]
Sebastian writes: Here are the winners in the jazz categories of the 61st Grammys 2019 with the nominees also listed. The big winner is trumpeter/composer/bandleader/educator John Daversa (BIO) who won three Grammys […]
Peter Bacon reports: The strongly mainstream Scarborough Jazz Festival might seem a long way off – in this Brexit Britain world I’m finding it hard to conceive of what life will look […]
We reported in May 2017 that three UK Jazz Festival organizers were posting prominent warnings that there were scammers operating who were purporting to offer bookings at their festivals. Now the same […]
Peter Bacon reports: Yet again, any talk of the demise of the Swanage Jazz Festival has proved premature. Here’s the full text of a press release received last night: “Swanage Jazz Festival […]
