UK Jazz News

December 16, 2024

The sad news of Ustad Zakir Hussain’s passing has left the musical and cultural world in profound shock and sorrow. The son of the late, great Ustad Alla Rakha, Zakir Ji carried forward his father’s legacy with extraordinary brilliance, while [...]

50th anniversary concert at Genesis Cinema, Bethnal Green, 14 December 2024.

The East London Community Band (ELCB) is a volunteer-run charity that gives musicians of any age, ability or instrument the chance to play music: from jazz, to early music, to classical. To celebrate their 50th anniversary they performed a multi-media [...]

(rec. 2000)

Reissued in the Luminessence audiophile-vinyl series at the same time as Annette Peacock’s An Acrobat’s Heart, to which it forms a kind of companion piece, Amaryllis is a trio recording with Gary Peacock on double bass and Paul Motian on [...]

Strange, sometimes, to be a musician these days. Live long enough, and you may get a call asking you to relate how it felt to play a concert whose recorded ghost is about to emerge from the archives fifty years [...]

‘Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley’ recap

The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s recap of pianist, composer, and conductor Arturo O’Farrill’s performance entitled Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley, which took place on 14 December at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn. O’Farrill was joined by his Afro [...]

French alto saxophonist Pierrick Pédron came to my attention over a decade ago with strangely brilliant pair of recordings for ACT Music. Kubic’s Monk (2012) found him approaching Thelonious Monk with a piano-less quartet featuring trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, and the [...]

A good friend to UKJN, Jay Visvadeva, has sent us this sad news this morning, after a day in which premature reports of Zakir Hussain’s death had been rife: “TABLA MAESTRO USTAD ZAKIR HUSSAIN HAS LEFT THE STAGE He passed [...]

Lilaila Records, the new record label set up by saxophonists Maria Grand and Camila Nebbia plus pianist Marta Sánchez, is dedicated to work that brings musicians from different backgrounds together. The label’s first release, Altered Visions, features the three founders [...]

Carolin Pook is a German-born violinist, composer, improviser, conductor & drummer from Brooklyn/New York. She creates and conducts music that is tailored to the featured performers and part improvised, part written, while melting those in a seamless way into one [...]

The Bad Plus have been going in one form or another for nearly twenty-five years. When founder member Ethan Iverson was in the group, they arguably reinvented the form of the piano trio with an iconoclastic approach to standards and [...]

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