
Erik Verwey Trio – People Flow (Self-released. CD review by Adrian Pallant) A debut album to lift the spirits, Dutch pianist Erik Verwey’s People Flow most certainly has feel-good and interest at […]
Erik Verwey Trio – People Flow (Self-released. CD review by Adrian Pallant) A debut album to lift the spirits, Dutch pianist Erik Verwey’s People Flow most certainly has feel-good and interest at […]
Odessa-born, Cologne-based vocalist and composer Tamara Lukasheva has been making her mark on the German scene for her musicianship, her vocal range, her natural dynamism and her sense of fun as a […]
Tori Handsley – As We Stand (Cadillac Records. CD review by Graham Spry) After having learnt to play the harp at the age of six, Tori Handsley became disillusioned with her instrument because […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Cafe Oto /TakuRoku. Download. Album review by Geoff Winston) It can be challenging to figure out the relationship between a graphic score and […]
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 […]
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 (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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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