London Jazz News

Due to the illness of one of the members of Medeski Martin & Wood, all of their European tour dates have been cancelled. The Barbican has cancelled tomorrow’s main hall concert, and […]

” There is no shortage of artists and designers prepared to engage with the complexities of jazz” (John L Walters)John L Walters radio talk broadcast last night on Jazz on 3 really […]

SEE STOP PRESS UPDATE. MMW Cancelled/ Claudia Quintet -> Freestage for 8th JulyUPDATE: Both prizes have been claimed. Congrats to Kate of NW10 and Stephanie of EC2.BUT: check with the Barbican about […]

Jazz on 3, now firmly established to catch new audiences in that prime time listening slot of 11.15pm to 1am on a Monday evening has a particularly good edition this evening. Here […]

Here’s a touching comment which I received this morning, about my post from last month about Twitter, and the picture of David Jean Baptiste.“Can’t believe how people find so many wonderful things […]

LIVE: David Sanborn/ YolanDa Brown/Sam Moore (above)Barbican Centre, Juy 2nd 2009.“Barbican Summer Jazz, (follow the link for the full programme), part of the Blaze Festival, kicked off last night with David Sanborn’s […]

The newly-formed National Youth Jazz Collective has formally announced the appointment of Dave Holland (above) as its first President. This is intended to be an active role for Dave Holland on his […]

Thanks and hat-tips and congrats to (Cheltenham Fest / trumpet-playing) Phil Woods for finding this blog post , which just has that feel of several trumpeters simultaneously landing in heaven.http://destination-out.com/?p=254

LondonJazz has received a thoughtful but also provocative guest contribution from Peter Slavid, an inveterate/ubiquitous festival helper/visitor/ doer.Peter has a long list of what’s missing in the UK jazz festival scene.The piece […]

Why not, dear readers, get yourselves down to Ronnie’s in the first half of August. It’s two weeks of all-British jazz- the official name is Britjazz Festival. (Media sponsor Jazzwise. )Take a […]

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 is the […]

The album launch of Troyka tomorrow Tues 30th has been in my recommended list for a while.The Vortex are telling me today that it is filling up, and recommending that it’s best […]

I hadn’t realised. I wrote last week that there were a few more nice gigs at WayOutWest culminating in a fun end-of-term bash on July 29th.Check out Chris Biscoe’s Band (8/7),Tony Woods’ […]

The weekly JazzFM mailout had this from Helen Mayhew, newly back on air at JazzFM , on DAB or internet radio….. “I’m delighted to be back at Jazz FM. It feels like […]

Nice piece about Jackson on the Bad Plus’ blog.