Sebastian writes: Faced with the challenge of how to adapt its educational work during lockdown, NYJO has put a brand new resource online. The Virtual Academy enables participants (of all ages!) to […]
Serious and the EFG London Jazz Festival have put out what amounts to a holding press release – with no specific names or venues mentioned – concerning their plans for the EFG […]
Andrew Cartmel remembers Ennio Morricone . He is gone. I can scarcely believe it. He was 91 and I guess I thought he’d live forever. There is a sequence in Cinema Paradiso […]
This year the Original UK Jazz Summer School, nominated for a 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Award, is organising a 3-day course . The course will feature a full programme of online sessions open […]
Sebastian writes: Trombonist and educator Patrick Kelly, who died peacefully on 11 June at the age of 88, was the founder of the Berkshire Youth Jazz Orchestra, later Pendulum, and a hugely […]
Peter Bacon reports: Barak Schmool’s Jazz Rhythm Class at the Royal Academy of Music is celebrating release from lockdown by hailing a cab: Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi to be precise. It’s […]
The Recipients of the 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Awards are announced: WINNERS Jazz Vocalist of the Year Cherise Adams-Burnett Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year Sarah Tandy Jazz Album of the Year ‘Finding Home’ […]
When Bill Kyle opened The Jazz Bar in Chambers Street on Edinburgh’s southside on 1 July 2005, it was the result of dedication, determination and coincidence, write Patrick Hadfield and Rob Adams. […]
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow has announced the winners of its 2020 Jazz Awards, writes Rob Adams: Prizes of £300 each are awarded every year to students excelling in three […]
The world’s largest jazz festival has announced its plans. The full programme is HERE. This year’s Special Digital Edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal will consist of: – livestream […]
The Canadian trombonist, pianist and composer/bandleader Hugh Fraser has died at the age of just 61. He had been grappling with cancer over three years. Tributes that have been written in the […]
Tony Dudley-Evans writes in tribute to Keith Tippett Keith Tippett: A Major Figure in the British and European Jazz Scenes It had been known for some time that Keith Tippett was […]
A year ago a London-based jazz singer caught up in the Windrush scandal was threatened with deportation. Bumi Thomas’s new release reflects the struggles that followed, says John Bungey. Last June Bumi […]
Frank Griffith writes in tribute to Lennie Niehaus: Lennie Niehaus, alto saxophonist, composer/arranger and scorer of twelve Clint Eastwood films has died at the age of 91. A consummate polymath of the […]
BBC Young Musician 2020 is now open for applications. The final will be “presented as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival” in November. It is also announced that the finalists will play […]
