This special concert, a highlight of the 2025 Montreal International Jazz Festival, marked the centenary and the unique legacy of the city’s very greatest jazz musician. It was in two parts: First was a small group playing some of Oscar [...]
David Beckett is a good friend of UKJN and has been visiting, writing about and photographing the Montreal Jazz Festival for many years. Here are his thoughts on the 2025 edition: Living just over the American border, in the state [...]
About eight kilometres north of central Paris lies the elegant suburb of Enghien-les-Bains, which has, for the past twenty five years, hosted an annual jazz festival across its various cultural venues (including Europe’s largest floating stage). This year’s festival opened [...]
Singer Marianne McGregor has been making an impact on the jazz scene in Scotland over the past few years. Her debut album Good Morning Warning appeared in 2020, she was voted best vocalist 2021 and 2023 in the Scottish Jazz [...]
