London Jazz News

Wright or wrong?The full Press Release on the 2009 Proms, which I have just received, is 3,089 words or 16,480 characters (without spaces) long.“Jazz” is just one of those 3,089 words, or […]

North-West London-based Tomorrow’s Warriors/Dune advertised today that they are looking for a Development Manager. The job is posted, with details of where and how to apply, on the Arts Industry website. Tomorrow’s […]

A very happy fiftieth indeed in Frith Street! Ian Mann of The Jazz Mann blog has done the work before me, and posted the press release of the May line-up for Ronnie’s, […]

LondonJazz reader Ivan B has kindly brought to my attention another appearance of the Gareth Lockrane Big Band. The towel rail, according to Bob McKay (or was it Roland Barthes?), is the […]

I’m very interested by Tommy Pearson’s insider’s take on the Sony Radio Awards.He writes about the progressive marginalisation in these awards, and more generally, of Radio 3. Here are the Sony Radio […]

Review: Theo Travis/John Etheridge/ Trevor Tomkins Trio.Coach and Horses , Isleworth: 6th April 2009I came away from last night’s gig at the Coach & Horses, a few minutes’ walk from Syon House […]

Jazz crops up in all sorts of places on the BBC. It’s great quality, but it’s unpredictable. I’m generally considered very news-hound-dog diligent, but even I simply can’t keep up with all […]

NEWS: Nick Mulvey (above) is hanging out with a new label. The Portico Quartet’s Myspace site confirms that the band has moved to WOMAD/Peter Gabriel’s Real World label. Their first album, Knee-Deep […]

Another sad departure, last Thursday, of Dayton OH- born, but iconic Californian alto saxophonist Bud Shank. He was 82. Here’s an obituary from the Washington Post, and an extended piece from Doug […]

I’ve just read a long CD review of a live recording from German band Shreefpunk (above) on Ian Mann’s Jazz Mann site, and I’m enjoying sound clips from the band’s Myspace site […]

Thoughts/quotes about music, and about fifty ways to lose your freedom, from Masekela speaking on the occasion of his 70th Birthday at the Cape Town Jazz Festival. Here’s the first bit of […]

Blogs I follow…..Just on my way to a journalists’ dinner in Oxford…..I’ve made a few new additions to my list (way down there on the right) of interesting blogs:1) Sunday Times jazz […]

A fourfold message, and a request to sign a PETITION comes from Swedish guitar legend Ulf Wakenius“Support Swedish Music!Sign the Appeal.Say no to closing down the platforms for Jazz,Folk and Classic Music.Help […]

I look around for stories, but on Fridays all I seem to get is soundbites. People shorten their message to a few words. They have their say, nurdle off for the weekend, […]

Fine Canadian flugelhornist and trumpeter Ingrid Jensen is at Ronnie’s on April 10th and 11th as the support for guitarist Pat Martino.But I spy with my eagle eye that Richard Turner of […]