Vocalist Louise Balkwill, originally from Oadby, Leicester, won the Riga Jazz Stage vocal competition in April 2022. She has just released a new video Louise writes: “This new video is the first […]
The ACT label is announcing today that the Swedish band Dearest Sister is the latest addition to its family of artists. At the core of Swedish band Dearest Sister is the creative partnership […]
Composer Dave Manington and Singer-Songwriter Lara Eidi have released another collaboration. Their new single/video combines Greek, Maqam and UK sounds. Lyrics are from the poem “Fones” (meaning voices), in its original Greek […]
Henry Spencer releases a new music video today. The Survivor and The Descendant is the title track of his EP released in October 2021. His band (Henry Spencer, trumpet, flugelhorn, compositions; Ant […]
‘Cascade’, the first single from pianist Joy Ellis‘s new album Peaceful Place is released today. Why the title…? “because of the cascading left hand piano…” says Joy Ellis LINKS: Feature about Joy […]
Stageplayer+, a new London-based company, has started to issue archive material from the North Sea Jazz Festival on a pay-per-view basis. There are four shows currently available: Caro Emerald from 2013 (77 […]
A new single. 911 Blue (For George) is released today, 10 December, International Human Rights Day, featuring Nick Etwell – Trumpet, Bill Laurance – Piano, Daniel Drury – Bass and Simon Lea […]
Boston-based pianist, composer and noted scholar Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol released his new album An Elegant Ritual (DÜNYA) in July 2021, enriching his compositional portfolio with an innovative approach to the traditional piano […]
London Jazz News has the exclusive premiere of Pastorale, the single coming out this Friday 10 December 2021 from pianist Fred Hersch’s major new album Breath by Breath, out January 7th via […]
Sara Serpa’s new album Intimate Strangers (Biophilia Records) is due out on 3 December, 2021. It features vocalists Aubrey Johnson and Sofia Rei and Serpa herself, with pianist Matt Mitchell and synth […]
Vocalist Germana Stella La Sorsa has a new album coming out later in the year. Alison Bentley interviewed her recently (LINK BELOW). Here’s a sneak peek of the first single, If I […]
Two good friends of LJN, vocalist Esther Bennett and pianist Terence Collie, have recorded a Christmas song by the much-missed Duncan Lamont. Esther tells us: “A Yellow Ribbon (and Love) is one […]
The “Classic Album Sundays” series presented “My Classic Album: Gary Crosby OBE on Charles Mingus’ The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady“, an interview with Tina Edwards: My Classic Album: Gary Crosby […]
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra releases a new video featuring Kurt Elling singing Somewhere, from West Side Story, to coincide with Remembrance Sunday this weekend, writes Rob Adams. Taken from Elling and […]
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra is releasing 3D animated music videos. This one, Frank Loesser’s If I Were a Bell, is the fifth. It has a giddying animation, some great soloing from brother and […]
