Each year since 2012 the Jazz North development agency’s Northern Line programme has selected five northern artists to support their development and live performance, with some now well-established alumni including Zoe Gilby, John Pope and Archipelago, and J Frisco and [...]
Italian pianist Ilario Ferrari loves working with strings and with his own group. To launch his latest album, Be Yourself, he brings a string quartet and a piano trio to the stage of Kings Place. Inspiration can strike Ilario Ferrari [...]
Mondays With Morgan is a column in UKJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves in — his main focus being the scene in nearby [...]
There’s something special about listening to high quality live music in a community venue. It’s the sense you get in good local jazz clubs, but rarely see at a music festival. Watford Jazz Junction, now in its second year, manages [...]
“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 [...]
