A new festival, spread over three evenings of triple bills, has just been announced. It will take place in Theater Regensburg, also known as the Theater am Bismarckplatz, and has a significant […]
Ten years after the death of Paul Motian, an ensemble led by Jakob Bro and Joe Lovano met in Copenhagen to record Once Around the Room, a powerful personal tribute to Motian’s […]
The blues have been a central part of Paul Jones’s life for sixty years. The singer, actor, harmonicist, radio personality and television presenter was 80 in February. He presented his final BBC […]
The winners of the 2022 Jazz FM Awards were announced earlier this evening. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Norma Winstone IMPACT AWARD : Jools Holland GOLD AWARD: Marcus Miller BREAKTHROUGH ACT OF THE YEAR : […]
Oscar Lavën – Questions in Red (Thick Records NZ TH 012 – Review by Nathan Wyde) The currently very fertile New Zealand jazz scene seems to make musicians versatile almost by default. Oscar […]
Nicki Leighton-Thomas (Playground Theatre. 18 October – One Good Scandal launch. Review by Lavender Sutton) Vocalist Nicki Leighton-Thomas has released a follow up album of songs by the well-known poet and lyricist […]
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 […]
Trombonist/ improviser/ composer/ educator Raph Clarkson brings a higher purpose, a sense of positivity and deeply held ideals to everything he does. The new album by his group Dissolute Society is shaped […]
Pianist/singer Joy Ellis is currently writing a doctorate at Birmingham City University, researching reasons for women’s underrepresentation in jazz. We asked her to interview two educators with a particular focus on broadening […]
“Mothers In Jazz” is a new series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry […]
Michael Brecker, Mike Stern, Joey Calderazzo, Adam Nussbaum & Jeff Andrews / Randy Brecker, Bob Berg, David Kikoski, Joey Baron & Dieter Ilg – Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1987 (Jazzline D78112 – […]
Jazz writer Philip Watson has described Marc Copland as “a roving ambassador for quietly intelligent, winningly complex and wholly engaging improvised music.” The Philadelphia-born pianist will release a new album on Monday […]
Robert Mitchell’s True Think – Hold The Light and The New Resistance (Bucks Records Ltd. 2CD set. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Robert Mitchell must be one of the most versatile musicians […]
Jazz Refreshed put out a statement yesterday 13 October: Some of you may have heard about our brother Jason Yarde. He suffered a massive stroke on stage in France but luckily doctors […]
Sebastian writes: Sad news to report. One of the most effective and consistent supporters and enablers of jazz in the UK, Brian Blain, died on Sunday 9 October at the Marie Curie […]
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