Ed Renshaw Peter Bacon reports: The 2018 Ed Renshaw Music Award, the bi-annual award in memory of the young musician whose guitar talents were acclaimed and who died far too young, is […]

Jon Hiseman playing at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Febuary 2018Photo credit: Paul Wood Peter Bacon reports: The death has been announced of Jon Hiseman, drummer and leader of the jazz rock […]

Trio LBT with their awardPhoto credit: Ralf Dombrowski The winners of the 10,000€ BMW Welt Jazz Award 2018 are the Munich-based trio LBT (Leo Betzl Trio, consisting of pianist Leo Betzl, Sebastian Wolfgruber […]

Lorraine Gordon, at her desk in the kitchen at the Village VanguardAn uncredited photo from Alive At The Village Vanguard Peter Bacon reports: The words “an era has ended” are thoroughly appropriate. […]

Orphy Robinson MBEPublicity Photo Congratulations to the three very fine jazz musicians who have just been honoured in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours: Pianist/ Composer/ Broadcaster Julian Joseph OBEVibraphonist / Composer Orphy […]

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 […]