Peter Bacon reports on some changes at the Vortex: I’d forgotten about painting parties – when you got all your friends round, handed them each a brush, and rewarded them for revitalising […]

The 2016 WinnersPhoto credit: Hayley Madden This year’s Parliamentary Jazz Awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday 16 October at Pizza Express Live in Holborn and the nominees have just been announced: […]

Dave Holland, Jazz Artist In Residence at the Royal Academy Of MusicPhoto from Dave Holland’s website Peter Bacon reports: Three very different big band experiences are in the what’s on schedule at […]

Stan Sulzmann and the Neon Orchestra at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham in 2013Photo: © John Watson/jazzcamera.co.uk Peter Bacon reports: Audiences at five concerts around the land have the opportunity to celebrate not […]

Donald FagenUnattributed picture Peter Bacon reports: If, like me, the news has so far passed you by (I blame all that GDPR stuff and dropping off email lists) and you missed our […]

Chris de Saram “Little did we know at the time, but those opportunities Chris afforded us would stick as some of the sweetest moments of our musical careers,” write trumpeter/composer Reuben Fowler, […]

Randy WestonPhoto credit: Bob Travis / Creative Commons Peter Bacon writes: The pianist Randy Weston died peacefully on Saturday morning at his home in Brooklyn. He was 92 and, according to his […]

Paolo Losi Peter Jones writes:Paolo Losi, the London-based jazz pianist, died yesterday at the age of just 46. He is believed to have suffered a heart attack. Musicians throughout the capital have […]

JasminePublicity picture Peter Bacon reports: Two Leeds-based bands, Jasmine and Slow Loris, are the latest beneficiaries of the Jazz North Introduces scheme which offers high-profile exposure at leading jazz festivals in the […]

Union DivisionPublicity collage Peter Bacon reports: It seems that guitarist and composer Moss Freed has been a busy man in the past few months. His latest e-newsletter has landed so if you […]

Chris de Saram Sebastian writes: Wakefield Jazz and Norvaljazz have announced this morning the sad news that Chris de Saram died on Tuesday 21 August. With typical thoroughness, Chris had asked that his […]

Aretha FranklinPublicity photo / Public Domain In this tribute, singer Jacqui Hicks recalls the moment last week when she heard of the passing of Aretha Franklin, and remembers Aretha’s inescapable and irreplaceable […]

Aretha Franklin at the Obama inauguration in 2009Photo Cecilio Ricardo, U.S. Air Force, Public Domain Aretha Franklin’s family have issued the following statement today:  “In one of the darkest moments of our […]

It is announced this morning that Hamburg-based Bauer Media is to acquire JazzFM. Financial terms have not been disclosed. Here is the Bauer Media press release in full: The Bauer Media Group […]