UK Jazz News

November 22, 2022

(6 -10 July 2023)

Buxton International Festival has just announced: “Buxton International Festival will present Wynton Marsalis in, for him what is, the most intimate of settings, the turn of the century Opera House. To close our first, full weekend of jazz we are [...]

EFG LJF 2022. 19 Nov.

It was Dhafer Youssef’s birthday. “Don’t remind me,” smiled the Tunisian oud-player and vocalist, with winsome humour- he didn’t want to “celebrate his oldness.” But the audience showed their devotion to him with Happy Birthday anyway, and Youssef responded with [...]

EFG LJF 2022. 18 Nov.

The evening started with a bundle of promises as singer Emma Smith, vibrant in shocking pink and singer/trumpeter Georgina Jackson in electric blue, bounded onto a stage already occupied by a 16-strong big band buzzing with energy and primed to [...]

A Tribute

Mark Small (*) pays tribute to the massively influential guitarist and educator Mick Goodrick. On 16 November 2022, American jazz guitarist Mick Goodrick, a sought-after performer and educator who deeply impacted three generations of guitarists around the world, departed this [...]

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