The nominations for the 2024 GRAMMY Awards which will take place on 4 Feb 2024 are announced. We have listed the Jazz Categories in full, and tried to spot jazz musicians in other categories (B). A. Nominees in the Jazz [...]
Question: How many vertically-challenged Afro-American jazz tenor saxophone masters have travelled the highway between Chicago’s South Side of Chicago and the rural Poitou region in France to become master of a château? Answer: a number that lies precisely midway between [...]
Pianist John Donegan launches his latest album, Light Streams, at Jazz Café Posk on Friday, 1st December. The eighth album that the Cork-born, Hertfordshire-based Donegan has recorded under his own name, it has already enjoyed much positive feedback. The French [...]
Pocket Jazz is a new online jazz course created by Arizona-based trombonist and Music Savvy founder Michael Lake. It aims to deepen a musician’s understanding of some of the more complex aspects to playing jazz, providing for those who enrol [...]
The traditional twentieth anniversary gift is china – a few plates, maybe a cup and saucer or two. Modernists apparently prefer platinum, which seems like a far more appropriate way to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Jamie Cullum’s Twentysomething, first [...]
