The following announcement (source Cabinet Office) is in the King’s Birthday Honours (17 June 2023) Janine has been an MBE since 2006. She is a nominee for this year’s award for services to jazz at the Parliamentary Awards. Congratulations!
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Actually…no. I’m not going to review this wonderful gig. It’s already had the best possible review it could have, here on London Jazz News 9 months ago. I swear that Mike and the band read Duncan Heining’s excellent description of [...]
Fresh from a trip down in Devon writing material for their next album, KOKOROKO admitted they’d not actually been planning any more gigs in London with this current set of music. But when Meltdown and the Royal Festival Hall come [...]
“Honestly,” says Pat Metheny, “it’s a lot easier to be complex than to be simple”. His album for solo guitar, “Dream Box” (Modern Recordings/BMG), which is released today, 16 June 2023, is simpler than recent larger-scale projects such as “Hommage”, [...]
