Full programmes for both the Glasgow and Edinburgh jazz festivals have now been released. Patrick Hadfield and Mark McKergow, two of LJN’s ‘friends in the North’, have scrutinised both line-ups. Here are […]
“Wonderful. It captures exactly the Bill I know.” (Gavin Bryars, referring to the book Beautiful Dreamer) The imaginative programming team at Soundcellar Poole are starting up a bold and interesting new programming […]
Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark…myths…legends… These are the mysterious places to which SNJO’s new project, also involving Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, actor Blythe Duff and a selection of Scottish traditional musicians, wants […]
Soweto Kinch is heading off to San Francisco, where he will be Resident Artistic Director of SFJazz for the four days from 19 to 22 May. Preview feature by Tony Dudley-Evans. Two […]
Flavio Li Vigni, Head of Jazz at Morley College London, has let us know about a new series of performances in the Emma Cons Hall at the college. He has put together […]
Todd Wills, former music programmer for the Vortex, is Artistic Director at Bristol Beacon, and is about to launch the fourth edition of Bristol New Music festival. A collective involving Spike Island, […]
A Hammond-dedicated venue, with its own instrument in place will open at the Bohemia in North Finchley on Sunday 8 May. The gigs will take place on Sundays twice a month, with […]
One of LJN’s regular contributors Andrew Cartmel was script editor of Doctor Who, and has written a series of crime novels about the “Vinyl Detective”. He (and his cat Jade) were the […]
One of the major jazz anniversaries of 2022 is the centenary of Toots Thielemans on Friday 29 April. LJN will be covering the big celebration of it in his native city, Brussels […]
With the Mingus Centenary falling on 22 April 2022, we have attempted to collate UK events to mark the anniversary – please feel free to add to the list – either by […]
The W is Bruno Heinen’s group with Heidi Vogel(*), Gene Calderazzo and Andrea Di Biase. “We play all original music by Bruno but with total freedom of our own individual styles,” says […]
Listeners who remember Joel Frahm’s saxophone playing from two decades ago are in for a surprise. He is about to embark on a tour of Europe as leader of a trio. In […]
The band co-led by guitarist Pete Oxley from the UK and Nicolas Meier, originally from Switzerland, is on a tour of France and the UK; their London date is at the 606 […]
Following the cancellation of their 2020 European tour due to the pandemic, celebrated American jazz-fusion quartet the Yellowjackets will at last return to the UK this spring. As part of their tour, they […]
Swiss pianist and composer Gisela Horat will be in concert with her trio at Jazz Cafe POSK on Saturday, 19 March 2022. Preview/Interview by Tomasz Furmanek. Gisela Horat was surrounded by music […]
