Over a year since live performance shuddered to a halt and, whilst the reopening of venues is within sight, we’ve got used to enjoying concerts mediated through a variety of technologies. Last year marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the [...]
Where Rivers Meet is an ambitious project which sees Tommy Smith and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO) exploring music from the New Thing period of the 1960s and 1970s in partnership with visual artist Maria Rud. Over four streamed performances the orchestra plays new arrangements [...]
In a Press Release issued today, Ronnie Scott’s announces: Here is the full text of the release: RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ CLUB – LONDON’S ICONIC LIVE MUSIC VENUE – TO REOPEN THURSDAY MAY 20 AND LAUNCH DEBUT LIVESTREAM SERIES BRINGING THE [...]
Conrad Cork was an alto-saxophonist, bassist, and Director of Jazz Studies in the Performing Arts Department at De Montfort University, Leicester. He was born in Birmingham, England, in 1940 – during an air-raid, he said, and it was certainly at [...]
The ‘sound of surprise’ is a description often attached to jazz since American writer Whitney Balliett used it in the early 60s. It sprang to mind as UKJazz News spoke to the Israeli-born pianist Roy Mor about his debut release [...]
