Variety (*) is reporting that a new film, ‘Music for Black Pigeons’, by Danish directors Andreas Koefoed and Jørgen Leth will have its premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week. The title comes from a Jakob Bro tune on [...]
Dick Hovenga, who runs the Dutch site Written in Music was at Studio 1 at Flagey in Brussels for all four nights of live recording in front of an audience by the Jakob Bro Trio, to be made into an [...]
Jazz organist Pete Whittaker (*) pays tribute to Joey DeFrancesco: The jazz community is having to come to terms with the awful news that Joey DeFrancesco has died at the height of his powers aged just 51. I’ve been asked [...]
Our good friends at the Jazz Views website produce between 30 and 50 album reviews in a typical month, as well as interviews and features. 2022 is their tenth anniversary. Founder/Editor is Nick Lea, based in Cumbria. We invited him [...]
A late career meeting one might not have thought of, but that immediately sounds like a good idea: trumpet and flugelhorn veteran Enrico Rava and pianist Fred Hersch came together for the first time for a short series of dates [...]
“Mothers In Jazz” is a new series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry figures who work with and hire musicians who [...]
