Edinburgh-born, Glasgow-based bassist Ewan Hastie has won the 2022 BBC Young Jazz Musician competition. The BBC’s press release is reproduced in full below. (BBC Press Release in full begins) Double bassist Ewan Hastie wins BBC Young Jazz Musician 2022 Twenty-year [...]
When Melody Gardot last performed at the Royal Festival Hall, in 2018 (*), Guy Barker was up on stage with her. This year he’s two seats in front of us, part of the enthusiastic audience welcoming this fabulous singer back [...]
On the final Saturday night of the EFG London Jazz Festival, a vast crowd assembled at Printworks, south London’s industrial-printing-plant-cum-nightclub, to mark the EFG London Jazz Festival’s 30th birthday. The 12-hour long celebration was the biggest-selling event of the festival, [...]
The WDR Big Band celebrate Charlie Parker’s centenary in suitably gyratory style with a feast of alto sax gymnastics and top-class new arrangements of some true Bird classics. Lao Tzu wrote that “the flame that burns twice as bright burns [...]
Take Five is a programme produced by Serious with the support of various funders which helps artists between 25 and 35 who have already started on their careers, but who can benefit from mentoring and advice to take them to [...]
This extraordinary performance saw two masters of their art combining in a breath-taking improvised creation and evolution of painting and music. Artist/painter Maria Rud and saxophone master Tommy Smith have collaborated before, on the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s superb Where Rivers Meet project which [...]
Pianist Andrew McCormack has been expansive in his musical excursions since his return from Brooklyn a few years ago, notably with his band Graviton. More recently, his partnership with Ubuntu records has seen a return to the acoustic piano with [...]
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