This year a young singer from New York is making her first UK visit, including concerts at the London Jazz Festival (November 20) and the Cambridge Jazz Festival (November 21). Stella Katherine Cole sold out all those engagements, well in [...]
What’s a conference for? Discussion, certainly. Decisions? Not essential. After the Jazz Promotion Network’s two-day bash in Bristol another feature, more nebulous but still positive, comes to mind. Now the meeting is established as a regular thing – it was [...]
While jazz traces its roots to Louisiana, the story of the music’s evolution is typically told along the lines of a melding of European and African musical influences. Congo Square and the bordellos of Storyville are frequently and superficially depicted [...]
Drummer Han Bennink was celebrated with a 3-day residency on his 82nd birthday and beyond. ‘I’m nearly 83,’ as he happily confided to the Cafe Oto audience. Bennink is a lynchpin of the European free jazz and improvisation scene rooted [...]
Raul Midón is a singer-songwriter steeped in the jazz and Latin traditions, who received Grammy nominations in 2017 and 2018 in the Best Jazz Vocal Category. His latest self-produced album, Lost & Found, adds elements of ‘alt-pop and smooth folk’ [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with multi-Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer Brian Lynch. His new album, 7x7by7 – featuring tenor saxophonist Craig Handy, guitarist Alex Wintz, pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Boris Kozlov, drummer Kyle Swan, and percussionist Murph [...]
Tristan Banks, drummer and bandleader, cooks up a lovely Brazilian feijoada at his award-winning club The Verdict. The dish itself combines the comfort of beans and rice with the piquancy of pork loin and smoked sausage in a sauce you [...]
It’s around this time in the month of November that jazz fans from around the country are looking to organise their schedules, book trains and sort out which shows in the 2024 EFG London Jazz Festival they’ll be attending. The [...]
Glenn Zaleski is a New York-based pianist originally from Boylston, MA. He has made a name for himself playing with the likes of Ravi Coltrane, Cécile McLorin Salvant, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Yotam Silberstein, Lage Lund, Ari Hoenig, and many [...]
