UK Jazz News

February 26, 2024

French saxophonist and composer Xavier Richardeau is a fascinating and resourceful musician. Accustomed to the offbeat of Parisian avenues with their lingering multicultural melodies  – from the Left Bank of the River Seine all the way to Chateau Rouge on [...]

Beecroft Gallery, Southend. 24 February 2024

Popping into my local, so to speak… Like so many seaside towns, Southend-on-Sea is wearing the malaise of over a decade’s austerity and *cough* certain political decisions, its High Street sprouting vape and phone shops while big names soldier on [...]

Crookes Social Club. 25 February 2024

This concert felt like a twinning of fiftieth anniversaries: Sheffield Jazz Club will be celebrating its own birthday in May (details below) so it was a friendly, community-minded gesture to invite Doncaster Jazz Alumni to Sheffield Jazz Club in the [...]

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Pizza Express Jazz Club, London and Turner Sims, Southampton

The sixth iteration of the popular Sounds of Denmark series comes to Pizza Express Jazz Club, London and Turner Sims, Southampton from 19-21 March, with a brand new line-up: trombonist and bandleader Lis Wessberg, the group Aberkejser with Karmen Rõivassepp, [...]

new album ‘Wonderful’

The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist and B-3 organist Mike LeDonne, one of the undisputed greats on both instruments. His latest album, Wonderful, a collaboration between his Groover Quartet and a gospel choir, was [...]

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Touring Germany with Odesa Symphonic Orchestra, 11-21 March

Memento Odesa is an extraordinary project, which shows people an unusual and deeply human side of the story of the war which Russia has been waging against Ukraine for two years this past weekend. The recording, released last week, on [...]

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Fleurine is a Dutch-born, internationally renowned jazz vocalist. Placing her own unconventional spin on pop, jazz and Brazilian repertoire, she is also a well-respected composer and lyricist, having written lyrics to compositions by Thelonious Monk, Kenny Dorham, Ray Bryant, Curtis [...]

New five-nights-a-week jazz show to start on BBC Radio 3 from April

It feels like we have been waiting a very long time for a piece of news to emerge from Broadcasting House that is as positive for UK jazz as today’s announcement from BBC Radio 3. I’m thinking back the the [...]

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