The Alan Barnes Octet’s performance of ‘Christmas with Copperfield’, on 19 December 2021 in front of a full house at the Maltings Theatre in St Alban’s was the final gig from Herts […]
Herts Jazz: ‘The Final Gig’
Herts Jazz Festival (15-17 October 2021)
The Herts Jazz Festival returns in October, running from Friday 15 to Sunday 17. Preview by Peter Vacher: Oh, to be in Bishops Stortford at festival time. Well, that’s what it feels […]
Art Themen (Herts Jazz Festival, 28 and 29 September 2019)
Saxophonist Art Themen, who has been Patron of Herts Jazz since 2014 following the passing of Stan Tracey, will be appearing in two very different contexts at this year’s Herts Jazz Festival. […]
Herts Jazz Festival: Sunday night programme change
Herts Jazz Fest are informing us as follows: “Unfortunately our Seamus Blake gig had to be cancelled. “This is now replaced at 8pm on Sunday with “Seven Steps to Heaven” featuring three […]
The precarious British jazz world
Sebastian’s London Column, just published in the new September/October 2019 edition of the German magazine Jazzthetik, concerns the unpredictable and changing circumstances that affect jazz festivals in England, and the way organizers […]
Clark Tracey and Herts Jazz Festival (27-29 September)
Under the leadership of drummer Clark Tracey, Herts Jazz has become one of the strongest in the British, volunteer-run jazz club circuit. Tracey spoke to John Fordham about how the club developed […]
