The Lowestoft Jazz Weekend returns in September, running from the Thursday 16 to Sunday 19, writes promoter Bob Blizzard: After successful festivals in 2018 and 2019, the event, like most others, had to be cancelled last year because of coronavirus. [...]
The Crazy Coqs venue at Brasserie Zedel opened in 2012, so it will be celebrating ten years next year. It’s an intimate venue, right next to Piccadilly Circus tube, and ideal for small scale jazz and cabaret. JUNE AND JULY [...]
Nobody can deny the heart and soul that reverberate from British singer-songwriter Alice Russell. With this special bonus track edition of her previous album To Dust (2013) you get a little extra of this Russell magic. Alongside all the To [...]
The 27th of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) highlights the work of a late, great piano master. The marvellous Stanley Cowell’s first solo piano album graced the storied label he ran briefly with trumpeter Charles Tolliver, Strata East. Other [...]
Mercury is the planet that is said to rule communication, and Mercury presides over trumpeter and composer Emma-Jean Thackray’s first full-length album Yellow as one of a pantheon of planets, gods and influences that formulate its central theme, that of [...]
The great trumpeter and educator Clark Terry used a phrase that became somewhat of a mantra for budding jazz musicians; it read “Imitate, assimilate, innovate”. Each and every musician featured in this fascinating new compilation, until the early 1960s, when [...]
This is yet another South African vinyl reissue of great interest from Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies that comes hot on the heels of their recent The Heshoo Beshoo Group and The Drive releases. The artist this time is [...]
A Press release this morning from the EFG London Jazz Festival is announcing a number of shows. The full text of the press release is as follows. Festival website link and previously announced shows below: TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE: TEXT [...]
