Cécile McLorin Salvant with Sullivan FortnerPublicity picturePeter Bacon reports:This year’s EFG London Jazz Festival will run from Friday 15 to Sunday 24 November and the first shows to be announced, with most […]
“We will be resting Jazz Now”Screengrab from BBC websiteSebastian writes:A press release at the end of last week presages a cut in the number of weekly jazz programmes on BBC Radio 3 […]
Debbie DickinsonPhoto courtesy of Lorraine GordonJohn Cumming writes: Jazz lost a hugely important advocate and activist with the passing of Debbie Dickinson on 1 March. But the loss is by no means confined […]
Guy BarkerPhoto Credit: Charlie ChanSebastian writes:In 2008, the Chairman of Cambridge/London-based classical music agent Hazard Chase, James Brown, lost his brother Robert to pancreatic cancer. Hazard Chase organise concerts and other activity to […]
Chick Corea, Cheltenham, 2017Photo credit: John Watson / jazzcamera.co.uk Love Supreme is announcing a substantial part of the programming of its seventh festival this morning, taking the number of acts announced from […]
Captain of the Herts Jazz team: Clark TraceyPhoto from 2016. Credit: Melody McLarenPeter Bacon reports:Herts Jazz, having moved towns and days, stays in St Albans but, from April, is back on the […]
Snarky PuppyPublicity picturePeter 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 the U.S. […]
On 23 March with Gary Husband: Joachim KühnPhoto credit: ACt Music / Steven HaberlandSebastian writes:The full line-up for the tenth edition of the Pizza Express Steinway Two Piano Festival is now in […]
Surge OrchestraPublicity picturePeter 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 the venue […]
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 Dankworth […]
The big names taking partPublicity imagePeter 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 8pm (doors […]
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 year […]
Roscoe Mitchell (foreground) and Don Moye. Berlin 2018Photo credit and © Ralf DombrowskiSebastian writes:The jurors of the 2019 Jazz World Photo competition have announced the 30 finalists, out of a total of […]
Joshua RedmanPhoto: © Jay BlakesbergPeter 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 from serious […]
Winners at the 2018 AwardsPhoto from JazzFMThe 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 at […]
