Soweto Kinch (Classic Music Sundays Special Edition, Spitalfields Festival. 6 July 2023. Report by John Stevenson) In a special edition of Classic Music Sundays for the Spitalfields Festival, MOBO award-winning jazz saxophonist, […]
Sebastian writes: This is a three-part report. “Veinards!” (lucky so-and-so’s) was how a commenter on Facebook described us. We were participants in something of an experiment, the first try-out of a new […]
Sebastian writes: BBC FOUR TV has just broadcast (7 May 2023) a 105-minute show with the title “Spring Soul and Jazz from Cheltenham”. This was a Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2023 Concert recorded […]
Oliver Weindling writes: Tony Dudley-Evans celebrated his 80th birthday at Symphony Hall in Birmingham on Saturday afternoon 8 April, with a stellar bringing-together of many of the musicians whom he has encouraged […]
Sebastian writes: BBC TWO has just transmitted a night of Burt Bacharach’s music recorded at Ronnie Scott’s three months before the great songwriter’s death. This is not so much of a review, […]
Jazz & The City(Salzburg, 13 to 16 October 2022. Festival Report and photos by Ralf Dombrowski(*)) They do things differently in Salzburg. Car drivers stop as soon as a pedestrian steps out […]
Inntöne Festival 2022 (Diersbach, Austria, 30 July-1 August 2022. Festival Report by Oliver Weindling) The Inntöne Festival has changed and adapted itself as a result of the pandemic, and in remarkable ways. […]
North Sea Jazz Festival 2022 (Rotterdam Ahoy. 8-10 July 2022. Round-Up Report by John Ferguson) The 3-day NN North Sea Jazz Festival operates from a single site, originally in The Hague and […]
We are putting together contributions we have received or spotted to do with this year’s Swanage Jazz Festival.. On his Bristol Jazz Log blog, Jon Turney has done a superb WRITE-UP, with […]
Buxton International Festival is now in its 43rd year. Traditionally a platform for opera and literature, this year saw the premier of its first ever official jazz series. Most of the performances […]
Sebastian writes: One of the pieces I was commissioned to do here in Montreal this year was not a written piece, but a podcast for The Economist. Enjoy the glee in that […]
Inntöne Keyboard Festival (Diersbach, Austria. 3-5 June 2022. Round-up by Oliver Weindling) Paul Zauner, founder and artistic director of the Inntöne Festival, having moved the dates of the main festival to July […]
Sebastian writes: Ian Shaw’s 60th Birthday celebration at Kings Place on 2 June was a glorious celebration of a very special person, a catalyst at the very heart of our scene. The […]
#Toots 100 (Toots Thielemans centenary celebrations – with Vince Mendoza, Kenny Werner, Gregoire Maret, Philip Catherine, Ivan Lins ) (Various venues in Brussels, 29 and 30 April 2022. Report by Sam Norris) […]
BBC Radio 3 After Dark Festival(Sage Gateshead. Festival Report by AJ Dehany) Sage Gateshead’s first all-night event, After Dark, was an ideal insomnia, a mind-expanding, time-bending 12-hour programme of music and more […]
