Gaz Hughes is a drummer from Cheshire. His third album in his own name, original tunes in homage to the classic Blue Note era, has just been released. Cheshire-based drummer Gaz Hughes is one of life’s positive spirits and enthusiasts. [...]
Pizza Express Live has announced the line-up for its annual Steinway 2-Piano Festival at the Dean Street venue. This is a fascinating list of piano pairings. Probably the hottest ticket is the closing night with Emmet Cohen and Danny Grissett. [...]
“Ten Past Never”, the new, third album from Enzo Zirilli’s ZiroBop, his Anglo-Italian group with guitarists Alessandro Chiappetta and Rob Luft, and bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado, is released on Ubuntu. Drummer/percussionist and jazz educator Enzo Zirilli has established an enduring and [...]
A statement from the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (our translation) states: “The Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (CCJO), which celebrated its 20th anniversary last autumn, will be performing regularly at the LOFT from now on and is celebrating its premiere with [...]
Hubert Dupont is a French bass player who came late to jazz after graduating initially as an engineer. No doubt that informed his choice of “Ultrabolic” as the name for the record label he founded in 2004. In the 1990s [...]
The 2023 Grammy winners list is significant in the way it shows the increasing reach of jazz musicians beyond the jazz categories (*). We produced a list of the nominees when they were announced HERE, and updated it with a [...]
Recorded live at the 2021 Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Grow is the second album from Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva and Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler. Performed in a converted church, the feel is experimental and free, with the reverberant space of [...]
Portuguese singer Amália Baraona grew up in Brazil listening to Bossa Nova. She’s put together a new album of songs mainly by Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who’s been part of the Bossa Nova movement since it began. He [...]
“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 [...]
