Chick Corea Akoustic BandPublicity picture Peter Bacon reports: The full line-up for the fifth annual Ronnie Scott’s International Piano Trio Festival has been announced. It will run in the legendary Soho club […]
Jonny MansfieldPhoto credit: Royal Academy of Music Peter Bacon reports: This year’s Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize, its eighth annual award for a graduating jazz musician at the Royal Academy of Music who […]
Opening keynote speaker at Look Out Rebecca RootPhoto courtesy of Kim Macari The “Look Out” Jazz Promotion Network Conference was held at Turner Sims at the University of Southampton on 13 and […]
Band On The Wall of the futureSupplied picture Peter Bacon reports: It started as The George and Dragon pub where the musicians played on a stage half way up the back wall, […]
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 […]
