Rubén Blades with Roberto Delgado Orchestra – Salswing! ( Rubén Blades Productions. Album Review by Peter Jones) Fans of TV’s Fear the Walking Dead will be familiar with Rubén Blades’s work, as […]
In a press release today 6 May, Love Supreme Festival states that: “Over the past few months we have been exploring all avenues to make Love Supreme happen this summer. We are […]
Marius Neset – A New Dawn (ACT 9930-2. Album review by Jon Turney) The lavishly gifted Marius Neset has turned more to large ensemble projects of late, but his remarkable saxophone playing […]
Sebastian writes: The nominees for the inaugural German Jazz Prize are announced today. It is a new set of awards. It has official support from the German Ministry of Culture. The Awards […]
The eighteenth of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) features a duo with a sense of humour. Andy Sheppard has made heaps of great records, as leader and – so many times! […]
In our series in which musicians do a “deep dive” into the music of their inspirations, pianist Jonathan Gee writes about ten of his favourite tracks by Thelonious Monk: Skippy from Genius […]
The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Studio Sessions 1946-1966 (Mosaic Records Limited Edition. Review by Leonard Weinreich) This Mosaic collection, limited to 3,500 copies worldwide, chronicles two fascinating decades of Louis […]
Tom Stephenson – Perfect Circle (Available from BandCamp. Review by Patrick Hadfield) New releases from Glasgow’s lively jazz scene have been coming thick and fast this year, and this impressive debut from […]
Amit Chaudhuri – Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music(Faber & Faber. 272pp. Book review by Jay Visvadeva) Finding The Raga follows a journey. It is an autobiographical account of Amit […]
Today, 29 April 2021 would have been the 99th birthday of Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron (“Toots”) Thielemans (1922-2016) writes Juliette Kay, and plans for the centenary next year are already taking shape […]
Tomorrow’s Warriors are marking their 30th Birthday with live events. Today’s press release (29 April 2021) lists the events: Cheltenham Jazz Festival – 1st and 2nd May with Xvngo and Maddy Coombs, […]
Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints – Other Worlds (Greenleaf GRE-CD-1084. Album Review by Alison Bentley) Not footprints, but Sound Prints: this US quintet led by Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas […]
Lukas Ligeti – That Which Has Remained…That Which Will Emerge… (col legno music. Album review by Fiona Mactaggart) That Which Has Remained…That Which Will Emerge… is the latest album from Austrian-American composer, […]
Serious are announcing that tickets for Pat Metheny’s Side-Eye trio at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, on Sunday 12 June 2022, will go on sale on Thursday 29 April 2021 at 10am […]
Voting will take place online this year. Juliette Kay reports: The deadline for voting in this year’s Parliamentary Jazz Awards will be at midnight on 14 May 2021 and anyone may vote. […]
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