UK Jazz News

November 4, 2024

Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, 1 November 2024

Double bass player and composer Ali Watson arrives as the latest part of the thriving Scottish jazz scene with an all-star quartet and assured performances of music from his debut album Terrarium. Born on the north coast of Scotland and [...]

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New album ‘Catching Moments’ + Pizza Express Soho on 11 Nov.

UK saxophonist, vocalist and composer Kim Cypher releases her third album on 22 November. ‘Catching Moments’ – with guests Liane Carroll, Ray Gelato, Ashley Slater and Antonio Forcione – has been four years in the making and follows on from [...]

This music doesn’t hang around. “Slingshot”, the first track, opens with four deep and clean tenor chimes which are promptly diced up by the trio, and a whole world of complexity opens up. And then, as it progresses, a kind [...]

New album ‘Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard’

The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel. His new live album, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard, released 4 October via Edition Records, features pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and [...]

1 November 2024.

A dreadful tragedy cut short the Pancevo Jazz Festival, held in a town north of Belgrade, Serbia. Three days of national mourning were declared in the region after a concrete canopy collapsed at a railway station in the city of [...]

3 November 2024.

Lucky for us, the Yellowjackets come to London often, and their gigs always touch a nerve that gets me thinking and feeling. This time it was that they don’t, or won’t fight. They’re bigger than that. Or is it that [...]

(1933-2024)

The great record producer, composer and arranger Quincy Jones has died at the age of 91. The news was confirmed by his publicist, Arnold Robinson, who said he “passed away peacefully” on Sunday night. UKJN will have tributes later to [...]

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Sue Rynhart is an Irish vocalist and acoustic guitarist who has sung with international Jazz artists, Rick Peckham, Tom Arthurs and Florian Ross. She has premiered works by many of the composers from the Irish Composers Collective & the Contemporary [...]

Alastair Robertson was a great contributor to British and American jazz through his Hep Records label, which he founded in 1974 and was still operating at the time of his death. Alastair discovered jazz via the Voice of America Jazz [...]

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