
“Musician, sound engineer, record producer, author, painter.” and former club owner. The great British bassist Peter Ind passed away last night, 20 August 2021, at the age of 93. Bassist Peter Ind, […]
“Musician, sound engineer, record producer, author, painter.” and former club owner. The great British bassist Peter Ind passed away last night, 20 August 2021, at the age of 93. Bassist Peter Ind, […]
The great Peter King (1940-2020) passed away on 23 August, 2020, just a few days after his 80th birthday, To mark the first anniversary of his passing, drummer Stephen Keogh has organised […]
Stan Sulzmann writes in a press release: “Early in 2020 like many colleagues, I found myself left high and dry for creative output as the pandemic took a hold. I took a […]
After fourteen years and 563 episodes, The Jazz Sesssion, “the original jazz interview podcast” has a new host, writes Sebastian Jason Crane has just handed over the hosting of The Jazz Session […]
NEWS This year’s Jazz Juniors Competition will take place on 6 October 2021 in Kraków. It is now open for entries until 31 August 2021. Mary James writes: The prestigious Jazz Juniors […]
Jazz musicians Cassie Kinoshi, Soweto Kinch, Yazz Ahmed and Tim Garland are among composers each receiving Paul Hamlyn awards of £25,000 with no strings attached. Peter Bacon reports: The Paul Hamlyn Foundation […]
Will Arnold-Forster has just been in touch about the resumption of Monday night gigs to restricted audiences at the Oxford Tavern in Kentish Town The programme for the first few weeks is […]
Love Supreme Festival is looking forward to putting on a festival in Summer 2022. In the meantime it has launched a successful Love You Live podcast series. The first episode was put […]
Composer, pianist and educator William (Bill) Kinghorn died on 28 April 2021 at the age of 86. Bill was Senior Lecturer in Harmony and Composition at Leeds College of Music from the […]
The winner of the Scottish New Music Innovation in Jazz award for 2021 is trombonist Liam Shortall for his corto.alto nu-jazz project. writes Mark McKergow(*) Liam Shortall has been producing recordings and videos featuring […]
The nominations are announced for the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2021. Winners will be announced on Monday 26 July. LJN is very honoured to be nominated ; thank you to people […]
Sebastian writes: The Crazy Coqs venue at Brasserie Zedel opened in 2012, so it will be celebrating ten years next year. It’s an intimate venue, right next to Piccadilly Circus tube, and […]
A Press release this morning from the EFG London Jazz Festival is announcing a number of shows. The full text of the press release is as follows. Festival website link and previously […]
Mike Westbrook pays tribute to trumpeter Stuart Brooks: We just heard the sad news that Stuart Brooks has died after a two-year fight with cancer. Stuart was one of the finest trumpet […]
The fifth annual Scottish Awards for New Music are here, writes Mark Mckergow (*), with nominees announced in thirteen categories including Solo Work, Large Scale New Work, Innovation in New Traditional Music,,, The Scottish […]