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 [...]
A very quick early-morning perusal of the 2025 BBC Proms programme and I find…. Sat 19 Jul 2025 – 19:00 – Royal Albert Hall – Samara JoyThe Great American Songbook and Beyond with Samara Joy with the BBC Concert Orchestra [...]
Angélique Kidjo’s status as one of today’s greatest living artists was decisively validated earlier this year, when she was awarded the prestigious Polar Music Prize for international recognition of excellence in music (alongside the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and the [...]
The nominations for the 2024 GRAMMY Awards which will take place on 4 Feb 2024 are announced. We have listed the Jazz Categories in full, and tried to spot jazz musicians in other categories (B). A. Nominees in the Jazz [...]
The EFG London Jazz Festival is making a third announcement today concerning its programme. The full programme launch event for the programmes of all venues will be on 12 September. Our listing below aggregates the events being announced today with [...]
The team at the festival told me they were expecting that the Montréalais would be out in big numbers this year in search of what is called “le fun” here. And they were right. On the evidence of this great [...]
The nominees in 27 of the 31 categories (*) of the third edition of the German Prize are announced. The Awards Ceremony will be at the jazzahead! trade fair in Bremen on 27 April. Each winner will receive not just [...]
A will-o’-the-wisp is one of the more disconcerting phenomena that a traveller might encounter during a journey into the wild. An eerie light hovering above a patch of marshy ground, it’s created by the chemical decay of organic matter, yet [...]
So, deluxe editions … an energetic attempt to extract cash from super-fans or a valuable new perspective on an admired body of work? The answer is probably both, though in these tough old times you can’t begrudge any artist a [...]
