UK Jazz News

April 25, 2022

Premiere performance 28 April 2022 in Calgary

The country that has arguably given the world the best big band / jazz orchestra arrangers… now has a National Jazz Orchestra. The inaugural concert will be in Calgary on 28 April. Bassists are among the most observant people in [...]

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Alyn Shipton’s new book On Jazz draws on a weighty archive of interviews he has accumulated in a long career mixing roles as publisher, author, editor, broadcaster and, not least, musician. He explains how he put together a more personal [...]

12 April 2022.

Ronnie Scott’s was full of anticipation ahead of this long awaited show, originally scheduled for April 2020 (it had sold out months before that) and postponed no fewer than three times due to the covid pandemic. And the stage was so full of [...]

A Complete Career Collection

“Listening back to old efforts is a bit like looking back through faded photo albums; you’re mostly embarrassed not only by the terrible jeans you wore, but by the fact that you didn’t know they were terrible.” Come on Bill, [...]

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