Deborah Brown. Photo from kcjazzlark Deborah Brown(Pizza Express Dean Street, first night of three. Review by Sarah Ellen Hughes.) What a voice. Kansas City-born Deborah Brown is billed as “simply one of […]

Duncan Lamont 80th Birthday Celebration(Leicester Square Theatre, part of Art of Song Festival, 15th April 2011, review by Frank Griffith. Photo credit: Roger Thomas ) Duncan Lamont is a rare bird. A […]

Fran Hardcastle previews the The Art of Song Festival, 05 – 19 April, Leicester Square Theatre. The Art of Song festival, celebrating jazz and cabaret song and singers kicked off at Leicester […]

The results of the 22nd British Jazz Awards organized by Big Bear Music in Birmingham have appeared in the current Jazz Rag magazine.(Thanks for the transcription services to GW) TRUMPET1. GUY BARKER2. […]

Last Thursday a new initiative was launched at Zizzi Central in St Giles High Street. Presiding, musically at the launch was a major figure in British music, pianist/composer/arranger/ educator Laurie Holloway. Hosting, […]

Nathaniel Facey (photo credit: Richard Kaby) won the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Jazz Medal for Young Musicians, and Norma Winstone was awarded the company’s Jazz Medal for Lifetime Achievement Sarah Ellen Hughes […]

Humphrey Lyttelton Celebration(HMV Hammersmith Apollo, April 25th 2010) UPDATE 28th April. The first estimate of money raised at the concert for the Humph Trust is £67,ooo. (Wow!) “It felt more like a […]

Sunday April 25th. HMV Apollo Hammersmith. Humphrey Lyttelton- A Celebration Concert UPDATE: A REVIEW OF THE GIG IS HERE It is going to be one extraordinary evening. Look at the line-up of […]

People still carry the flame. Ronnie’s is on a roll. Here’s an Honour Roll who was on at the late-night party on the 50th anniversary day itself, 30th October 2009. (Kind completist […]

It’s the 16th year of the Worshipful Company of Musicians Young Jazz Musician Award. And this year the competition is going up in the world. Translate. It’s being held for the first […]

Tony Coe’s (above) life journey as a musician could have taken him literally anywhere. In 1965 he turned down a chair in the Basie band. As an improviser he has one of […]

People have so many aliases these days. Ursula Malewski sings. She’s a big Dave Frishberg fan (see below for the only Frishberg lyrics I can find today – fun ). MehrClef- who […]

I do like the look of Brian Blain’s Thursday evening gigs for May and June. They are at Lauderdale House in Highgate (above) Great acoustic, nice place for a summer night. The […]

Nikki Iles (above)is in big demand as a performer. And that is an understatement. On the biography page of her well-maintained website, I tot up no fewer than eleven projects/partnerships/bands. The people […]