Paul Walker (*) writes: Michael Brecker fans should head down to the East Side Jazz Club in Leytonstone next Tuesday 21 March to see the Northern California-based jazz trio Charged Particles, (Murray Low, […]
The Sunday 26 March edition of BBC Radio 3’s Jazz Record Requests (4pm) will be marking the death of Wayne Shorter with a special programme including interview extracts. Listeners are invited to […]
As he looks forward to this year’s Swanage Jazz Festival, and announces the programme, Festival Chair Paul Kelly writes: Swanage Jazz Festival has the most stunning setting with the Mowlem Theatre sited […]
The premiere of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s version of Peter and the Wolf, translated specially into the language particular to the area, is included in the programme for Aberdeen Jazz Festival. […]
Saxophonist duo, father and son Stan and Matt Sulzmann will play with their quintet at Vortex Jazz Club this Saturday 4 March. The set features some never-before-heard newly commissioned music, as well […]
Among the jazz centenaries in 2023 is that of pianist New York pianist Elmo Hope (1923-1967). The Herwig Gradischnig-Claus Raible Quintet has made a speciality of performing Hope’s music, and includes two […]
Saxophonist Mark Buckingham runs a big Band of professional players in South West London. A newly-formed iteration of the band, “Mark Buckingham’s Thad Jones Legacy Orchestra”, will be marking the Thad Jones […]
Exciting Polish-Japanese duo Szymon Mika (guitars) and Yumi Ito (vocals and piano) will play material from their latest release “Ekual” at Jazz Café POSK on Friday 24 February 2023. Interview/preview by Tomasz Furmanek […]
BBC Radio 3 will mark what would have been Nina Simone’s 90th birthday on the weekend of 18/19 February. The birthday itself would have been on 21 February. J to Z and […]
Double Jazz FM Award-winning vocalist Georgia Cécile launches two new projects in February, writes Rob Adams Glasgow-born Georgia Cécile, who won UK Jazz Act of the Year and Vocalist of the Year at the […]
Watford Jazz Junction was new to the jazz festival scene last year and this second edition has a particular focus on the influence of the Caribbean on UK jazz. We take a […]
Two projects, both with Alice Zawadzki in a leading role, come to fruition in the next few days: Alice Zawadzki explains the background to Yiddish glory: Jewish refugees in Central Asia (*) […]
Legendary alto saxophonist Dick Oatts is returning to London this month for two nights at Pizza Express Dean Street. The first of the nights is on the date of the album release […]
Saxophonist Iain Dixon is a major figure in jazz and jazz education in the North-West. As a significant presence in Steve Berry’s team on the jazz faculty at RNCM, he is helping […]
Sebastian writes: Evan Parker has written and drawn to our attention a project with a fabulous line-up based on live, internet-based interaction between a group at The Hot Tin in Faversham in […]
