UK Jazz News

January 9, 2023

Paul Deats and Rachel Foster of Peggy’s Skylight have discovered that Nottingham City Council is planning to sell the Peggy’s Skylight building at auction on 23 February 2023, despite the fact that they have a ten year lease, according to [...]

6-7 January 2023.

Jimi Hendrix always expressed an interest in writing music for a big band but sadly passed away before he could make this dream a reality. Gil Evans was intending to work on this project and eventually did record an album [...]

Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook

This new release is the first that I have come across devoted entirely to arrangements of the music of English composer and jazz giant Mike Westbrook. And who better for such an endeavour than saxophonist Chris Biscoe, who occupies a unique [...]

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Cadogan Hall, 20 Jan 2023

This unique collaboration between Britain’s star jazz vocalist Claire Martin and Callum Au’s 50-piece orchestra and big band was originally set for its Cadogan Hall debut in June 2020. Their Songs and Stories album together on the Danish Stunt record [...]

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“Mothers In Jazz” is a 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 are [...]

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