Danish Music Awards Jazz is the annual awards ceremony that celebrates the Danish jazz scene and highlights the past year’s Danish jazz releases. It has been produced by JazzDanmark since 2011. The winners were presented with their awards at a [...]
The Shrewsbury Jazz Network has supplied Shropshire and the West Midlands with concerts by the finest British jazz musicians for over 20 years, writes Charlie Rees. The majority have taken place at a venue called The Hive, a wonderful arts [...]
The regular year-end meetings of the French jazz organisation AJC (Association Jazzé Croisé) are a major gathering for people involved professionally in jazz in France. They provide the annual platform at which AJC presents its four officially nominated showcase bands, [...]
The 49th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections sees a legend of cool inspired by Cole Porter. The great altoist Lee Konitz knew everything, but did tend to restrict himself to a fairly limited set of favourite vehicles in his late [...]
Jorge Rossy is a familiar name to those who have followed the career of Brad Mehldau, in whose original trio Rossy played drums for more than ten years. In fact, Rossy’s connection with Mehldau dates back as far as 1993, [...]
The striking cover of the new The Filthy Six EP Soho Filth (Live from Dean St Studios) reflects the colourful origins of the London-based sextet, who began their journey playing in The Tatty Bogle club in Soho, writes Martin Chilton. [...]
