BBC Proms Launch imageImage credit: BBC/Tim Burt Sebastian writes: The programme for the 2019 BBC Proms season has been announced, so I’ve picked out some of the jazz and jazz-related-ish concerts. Prom […]

A hothouse of a different kindFree-to-use image Peter Bacon reports: Manchester Jazz Festival – or mjf as it is trendily, lower-casedly known – has opened the doors of its hothouse project, an […]

Graham CostelloPhoto credit: Jannica Honey Rob Adams writes: In an imaginative and admirably proactive venture, saxophonist Matt Carmichael has compiled a Spotify playlist of mostly current music from a Scottish jazz scene […]

Some of Llandudno’s line-upPublicity montage Peter Bacon reports: Llandudno Jazz Festival offers a wide selection of jazz in rural surroundings over the weekend of 26-28 July 2019 with a warm and lively […]

Tommy SmithPhoto: Derek Clark Tommy Smith is helping to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh. Rob Adams reports: Saxophonist Tommy Smith has been invited to give four concerts at […]

Poppy Koronka writes: INNtöne Festival is back and has announced its programme for 2019, which promises a few days of jazz-filled bliss in the Austrian countryside. A boutique festival which takes place […]

Scott Walker in the 1960’sPublicity Photo Dick Hovenga is a Dutch music journalist who writes for several print music magazines and is also the founder/editor/lead journalist of http://www.writteninmusic.com, widely considered to be […]

L-R: Maximilian Hirning, Leo Betzl, Sebastian WolfgruberPhoto credit Ralf Dombrowski The winners of the 11th International European Burghausen Young Jazz Prize, worth EUR 5,000 are Trio LBT (Leo Betzl, piano, Maximilian Hirning, […]

Michel Petrucciani as captured by David Sinclair, one photograph from his amazing archive Malcolm Sinclair, photographer David Sinclair’s son, has just put out the following statement:My father, David Sinclair, died peacefully yesterday, 25 […]