Rob Mallows, for LondonJazz News, met up with the members of Spirit Fingers at the start of a mini-heatwave in London. The music later that night at Pizza Express Holborn matched the weather! The band […]
He works incredibly hard, leaps into any situation he likes the sound of, has played in the bands of Dave Douglas and Paul Motian, and is making a rare visit to the […]
Under the leadership of drummer Clark Tracey, Herts Jazz has become one of the strongest in the British, volunteer-run jazz club circuit. Tracey spoke to John Fordham about how the club developed […]
Sebastian writes: Saxophonist/composer Christine Jensen and her elder sister, trumpeter/bandleader Ingrid grew up in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, a town with a tradition of concert bands going back to the 1870s, and […]
What does one call the combination of three New York-based vocalists, each possessing dazzling musicianship, impeccable taste and biting wit? The answer is: Duchess. With a penchant for hard-swinging and harmony-filled music, […]
Jazz and dance meet intimately. Peter Bacon finds out more: LondonJazz News: First the jazz, and the band. You’ve played Ronnie’s before as well as Pizza Express, The Spice of Life and […]
It started as a pop-up two years ago; now it’s grown to a four-day affair. Jazz Leeds Festival founder Steve Crocker shares details of the 2019 festival: “After its successful debut in […]
Peter Bacon reports: The improvisatory links are strong, so bringing jazz music together with flamenco dance feels like a very natural marriage, but one too that will strike sparks. In the Sadler’s […]
The International Guitar Foundation’s four-day Guitar Summit at Kings Place covers the full range of fret activity, from classical to sophisticated pop, taking in lute music, jazz and flamenco along the way. Rob […]
B Side Events are bringing to London the best Polish contemporary/avant garde jazz by some of the most interesting and highly acclaimed artists to come out of Poland in recent years. Tomasz […]
Peter Bacon reports: He’s not as well known as Masekela or Ibrahim, but his achievements and influence have been considerable. Which is why his music is being celebrated at the Vortex Jazz […]
Rachel Coombes previews this year’s Soho Jazz Festival: This year the Soho Jazz Festival pays homage to the legacy of Pizza Express founder Peter Boizot, who passed away in November last year […]
Having gathered around him some of today’s finest young players based in Europe and the US, the London-based composer and tenor saxophonist Alex Merritt has spent the past week touring some of […]
For a jazz festival which presents strong players in spectacular settings, Südtirol is hard to beat. Alison Bentley previews the 2019 festival: Every year, the Südtirol Jazz Festival brings musicians from different […]
The Edinburgh Fringe programme is out. There is a decent smattering of jazz alongside all the comedy and other stuff. We asked three of our writers for their tips: Mark McKergow Big […]
