In the shadow of Benny Goodman: Bob Wilber will be leading the New York Benny Goodman centenary tributes in May with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra One of the first pieces I […]

LIAM NOBLE- Album launch at the Vortex this Wednesday Three blogs I’ve been reading: Oliver Weindling has also caught the bug of drawing attention to out-of-the-way gigs in London HEREI have added […]

The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, among the winners at this year’s Grammys. Best Contemporary Jazz AlbumRandy In Brasil :Randy Brecker[MAMA Records] Other nominees: John McLaughlin, “Cannon Re-Loaded”- all-star Adderley celebration, “Miles from India”, […]

Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort I have an unashamed soft spot for the film Les Demoiselles de Rochefort from 1967 featuring Catherine Deneuve and her elder sister […]

This site, LondonJazz, has just clocked up its 2000th visitor. If you have become a regular reader, thank you. It took just under three weeks to clock up the first 1000, and […]

Maria Schneider Laura Barnett wrote a feature in yesterday’s Guardian about women in jazz. Thank you Oliver for pointing it out to me on the phone. Good piece. The whole thoughtful article […]

John Etheridge (Photo/Paul Darkwood) It’s a real challenge. How does one cut down a John Etheridge biography ? Simple you say. You edit it . You need to be totally merciless. Too […]

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Protectionism. British jobs for British workers. And the same in the US. It’s coming. But we don’t have to like it. I have already celebrated the luck we as Londoners have to […]

BRECON 2009 WON’T HAPPEN The lead times are reckoned to be too short. They’re calling it a “Gap Year.” The full story comes from BBC Wales CHELTENHAM 2009(28 Apr-5 May)LOOKS GOOD The […]

Julianna Fabian Julianna Fabian from Budapest is not just making her London debut as a singer next week. She’s on her very first trip to London. I was first alerted to this […]

Bill Ashton and NYJO getting intothe Christmas spirit in 2007 An nice profile of Bill Ashton in the Harrow Observer gives me the germ of an idea, to start building up a […]

In Ravenscourt Park, that no man’s land between Hammersmith and Chiswick, sits a low-rise, austere grey-and-white building from the early 1970’s, POSK, the Polish Cultural Centre. It takes its role in the […]

The BBC Wales Website is suggesting there will be some good news next week. Sregnif Dessorc.

An Australian ,in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, said that we Brits are only capable of winning medals in sports which we can play sitting down. Well ,there are three jazz […]