Saxophonist/composer Emma Rawicz, originally from Devon, and currently an undergraduate at the Royal Academy of Music, is already making waves on the London scene. Her debut album “Incantation” will be released this spring. […]
Sebastian writes: At this time of year please forgive me a bit of nostalgia. On Saturday 10 January 2009, I wrote the very first article for this site. It was a preview […]
Stephen Keogh’s Global Music Foundation has just announced a series of concerts from artists’ homes over the holiday period, Sebastian writes. We have all found out in the past two years how […]
The Shrewsbury Jazz Network has supplied Shropshire and the West Midlands with concerts by the finest British jazz musicians for over 20 years, writes Charles Rees. The majority have taken place at […]
Detroit-born alto saxophonist KENNY GARRETT has won a dozen Downbeat polls – almost all from its readers rather than critics. He will be performing a three-night residency at Ronnie Scott’s from 24-26 November. Charles Rees writes: […]
A new documentary film about Martin Speake’s February 2020 tour with Ethan Iverson, Calum Gourlay and Jeff Willams/ Jorge Rossy will receive its premiere screening this Saturday, 13 November at Sands Films […]
“An international, collaborative experiment” is how Festival Director describes Jazzfest Berlin 2021. Ahead of the opening of the festival on Thursday 4 November, a further press release has been published, developing further […]
The annual RNCM Saxophone Day in Manchester has previously attracted US stars such as Chris Potter and Eric Marienthal as headliners. This year the evening concert will be given by an undersung […]
Kurt Elling and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra are back together with a new collaboration – they are building an Apparition Bridge. Rob Adams reports: Works by the late Esbjorn Svennson, Danish bassist […]
One of the world’s leading sitar maestros, Nishat Khan, will perform a concert of North Indian Classical Music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 11 November 2021, the eve of the London Jazz […]
South African-raised pianist-singer Estelle Kokot put the period of lockdown to good use and started an online collaboration with percussionist, composer, poet, educationalist and animator Eugene Skeef. Their work together, using his poems as the starting point, started in […]
Saxophonist Tim Whitehead has always been an instigator of projects. The former member of Loose Tubes, of Ian Carr’s Nucleus, Morrissey Mullen, Jim Mullen’s Meantime… has often provided the energy to make […]
Jazz is the sound of surprise, and the 606 Club’s programme has some interesting and appealing dates coming up in the next few weeks: Thursday 28 October: A Celebration of Christian Brewer‘s […]
“I like music that sounds as if it was sawed by a rusty saw,” says pianist Jason Moran. Ahead of his show with Archie Shepp on the opening night of the EFG […]
Ann Liebeck’s new CD Locked Down Sonnets will be launched at Karamel in Wood Green on Friday 15 October, in partnership with Collage Arts. Press Release from Collage Arts “Ann Liebeck (vocals), […]
