I’m recommending the three night Ronnie Scott’s Kind of Blue/Giant Steps nights next week. But here’s something different. An interesting marketing initiative from Abram Wilson and Dune Music: volunteers for his Official […]
Regular LondonJazz reader Frank Griffith , who also has a show on new internet radio station UKJAZZRADIO – has written in about a gig he’s looking forward to by Steve Grossman (above- […]
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The Wigmore Hall’s website has a rare London appearance on Monday November 16th-in the London Jazz Festival- by the Marcus Roberts Trio. His regular trio partners for the past 14 years have […]
Website traffic has been picking up in the past few days here. Readers have been seeking out an interview I did back in March with bassist Michael Janisch. He’s about to set […]
Lothar Ohlmaier (tenor saxophone)/Julie Sassoon (piano)/ Milo Fell (drums) (Clore Ballroom , South Bank Centre, 21st August 2009)I dropped in briefly to Kevin Le Gendre’s evening at the South Bank, where he […]
Peter Bacon of thejazzbreakfast blog has just put up a great review of Evan Parker’s new CD. Which reminds me that voting is open in the Downbeat Poll till Monday 24th, and […]
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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 […]
I was sorry not to make it to the Majesties gig last night. Abram Wilson, on the evidence of his Twitter feed, has been having fun. Did any readers go?OH man. The […]
Here’s a nice piece from Nate Chinen dispersing some of the grey the clouds over jazz in the columns of the New York Times. Thank you to the eagle eyes of Tessa […]
This Friday sees a launch event for the second release on the Vortex Club’s own label. The CD is a compilation by critic/DJ Kevin Le Gendre: ‘Now’s The Time II’ . John […]
Michael Garrick (piano) , Chris Allard (guitar), Simon Little (bass)National Theatre Foyer, August 17th 2009I only dropped in briefly, but hadn’t wanted to miss the the privilege of hearing one of the […]
Yeah, yeah, three hundred followers. Is that all?Quite so.But if you look at the Twitter pages of London singer Imogen Heap above, or San Francisco cellist Zoe Keating, you will see that […]
What a fantastic autumn line-up drummer / promoter Clive Fenner has put together for East Side Jazz in Leytonstone for the Autumn.Admission – a mere, modest fiver. I’m tempted by all of […]
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