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Canada Calling (2.2): Brad Barker’s pick of some 2020 Canadian releases

By londonjazz on 7 January 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

In the previous Canada Calling post, new Canadian resident Nicky Schrire chatted to Jazz.FM91 Music Director Brad Barker about the Toronto radio station and his role in the Canadian jazz community at […]

Canada Calling (2.1): Brad Barker (Music Director of Jazz.FM91, Toronto)

By londonjazz on 7 January 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Canada Calling is new series from vocalist and composer Nicky Schrire. London-born and South African-bred, Schrire recently moved to Toronto, Canada, where she has been cultivating an appreciation for the many varieties […]

Nominations Invited for Inaugural ‘Deutscher Jazzpreis’ 2021

By londonjazz on 5 January 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The Berlin-based, German Federal Government-supported body “Initiative Musik” is organizing the very first “Deutscher Jazzpreis”,  under the personal  aegis of Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters, a devotee […]

Clare Teal: New Sunday Night Show on Jazz FM (from 24 January 2021)

By londonjazz on 5 January 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Jazz FM is announcing today that Clare Teal will be joining the station to present a new show of big band and swing  music on Sunday nights from 7pm-9pm from 24 January […]

52 Jazz Tracks for 2021 (New Series by Jon Turney – 1. Carla Bley’s ‘Indonesian Dock Sucking Supreme’ )

By londonjazz on 5 January 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Jon Turney, a regular (and wonderful!) LJN writer, is bringing a touch of nostalgia to the new year. Each week, he will reflect on a track that has meant something to him […]

Calum Storrie / Steve Beresford – ‘Nine Day Score’

By londonjazz on 5 January 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Calum Storrie / Steve Beresford – Nine Day Score Cafe Oto /TakuRoku. Download. Album review by Geoff Winston) It can be challenging to figure out the relationship between a graphic score and […]

Tribute: Frank Kimbrough (1956-2020)

By leahsiennaljn on 4 January 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Pianist, composer and educator Frank Kimbrough died on 30 December at the age of 64. He was a long-time member of Maria Schneider’s Orchestra and a faculty member at Juilliard in New […]

Alan Barnes and Dave Newton (Livestream from The Boileroom, Guildford, 12 Jan 2021)

By londonjazz on 4 January 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
Alan Barnes and Dave Newton

Guildford Jazz’s first livestream of the new year features the Alan Barnes and Dave Newton Quartet from the Boileroom in Guildford on Tuesday 12 January. The gig is being presented in collaboration […]

Coma World – ‘Coma World’

By londonjazz on 2 January 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Coma World – Coma World (Byrd Out Records BYR028. Review by Graham Spry) Coma World, the new album by the eponymous Coma World duo, was inspired by the recollections of a friend […]

Mathewson & Mathewson ‘Blow’ from 1/1/76 (released today 1/1/21 by Jazz in Britain)

By londonjazz on 1 January 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The Jazz in Britain label is releasing Blow today, 1 January 2021, an album of previously unreleased material with bassist Ron Mathewson and his brother Mat, and making it available for free […]

Virginia MacDonald (Canada), Ewan Bleach (UK), Joaquin Sosa (Cuba) winners at International Clarinetist Corona Competition

By londonjazz on 31 December 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

The International Clarinetist Corona Competition is “a grassroots effort exclusively aimed towards working clarinetists across genres to provide hope and encouragement in face of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The competition had three sections, […]

RIP Claude Bolling (1930-2020)

By londonjazz on 31 December 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Jazz pianist, conductor and composer Claude Bolling, (France Musique reports, link below) has died at the age of 90 at the Hôpital de Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris. Bolling wrote the […]

Kansas Smitty’s play live to ‘Miracle on 34th Street’

By leahsiennaljn on 29 December 2020 • ( Leave a comment )
Screenshot from Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street (Kansas Smitty’s film score livestreamed 24 December HERE. Review by Leah Williams) The much-loved and irrepressible Kansas Smitty’s band continue to be hugely creative with online formats:  just […]

Jeff Williams (new album on Whirlwind Recordings: ‘Road Tales’

By londonjazz on 29 December 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“I feel like I know what jazz is- the dedication, the seriousness, the humour, the joy of making this music.” Ohio-born, UK-based drummer Jeff Williams’ new album features John O’Gallagher (alto), Josh […]

Brubeck… on ‘time’ and what Milhaud taught him (interview by Alex Dutilh on France-Musique)

By londonjazz on 28 December 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

The Open Jazz programme from France-Musique is currently in the middle of a two-week, ten-part epic series marking the centenary of the birth of Dave Brubeck. It includes a fascinating interview from […]

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