There’s nothing quite like the leonine orchestral roar of horns and the full sonic range that the best bandleaders succeed in coaxing out of any top-class large ensemble. Trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra (JLCO), has been [...]
The 10th anniversary edition of the Szczecin Jazz Festival featured concerts by stars from the international scene such as the Jacky Terrasson Trio, Dianne Reeves and the Jazz Top 2024 Gala which honoured the winners of the Jazz Forum magazine [...]
Blue Note Entertainment president Steven Bensusan has gone public in an interview with Sky News, outlining his reactions to City of Westminster’s decision not to allow a late license for the proposed club in St Martin’s Lane. Quoting from the [...]
Award-winning London-based guitarist Billy Marrows releases The Penelope Album Live via Discus Music on 28 March. He will set out on a spring tour to mark the occasion, celebrate his work and debut new compositions. Marrows, who has become a [...]
Vocalist/pianist Champian Fulton and saxophonist/clarinetist Klas Lindquist are releasing their debut album as a duo, At Home, on 2 May via Turtle Bay Records. Links to the label’s and artists’ websites can be found at the end of this article. [...]
John Clayton is an American double bassist and Grammy Award-winner. He has written and/or recorded with artists such as Milt Jackson, Diana Krall, Paul McCartney, Regina Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gladys Knight, Queen Latifah, McCoy Tyner, YoYo Ma and Charles [...]
It’s nearly two decades since Welsh vocalist/multimedia artist Deborah Claire Procter, now based in Argentina, last performed in the UK. She’ll be performing with composer/pianist Oscar Edelstein in a new show “Bitácoras” at The Space, Isle of Dogs in London… “a fusion [...]
The Shadowlands trio, of Robin Fincker on tenor and clarinet, Lauren Kinsella as vocalist and Kit Downes on organ and piano, follows in a venerable line of similar UK trios in which the voice intertwines, and the words are enhanced [...]
Find yourself a comfortable seat and watch this riveting story. Not only does it trace the giddy highs and gut-wrenching lows of jazz musician Artie Shaw’s life but it also doubles as an examination of the uneasy stresses between an [...]
Few successful musicians willingly renounce the lure of the stage but back in 2008 Bill Bruford sat in the New Inn in Ham, Richmond, and told me why he planned to quit professional drumming. Over an illustrious career he had set [...]
Dave Panichi is widely regarded as one of the greatest jazz trombonists Australia has produced. Born and raised in Sydney, he moved to New York in 1981, where he lived for two decades. He performed with a multitude of notable artists [...]
Ahead of her live performance at Lighthouse, Poole on Friday 28 March, Emily Masser talks about her friendship with Alex Clarke, her new album, her family inspiration… UK Jazz News: I note you went to Chetham’s School of Music in [...]
In the interview round for this album, Rachael Calladine explained that it took her many years of plying her craft as a jazz singer before she started to work at the 606 Club – where her album launch will take [...]
The Rejoicing Ensemble debuts Hans Koller’s “unique, exciting and explorative” jazz orchestra project this April, with guest artist John O’Gallagher. Via email, Hans and John answered UK Jazz News’s questions about this new work for large ensemble. Hans Koller and [...]
1980 was a comparatively quiet year for Art Pepper: his health was poor, he toured Europe. He recorded three records – Winter Moon and One September Afternoon, and Mistral with Freddie Hubbard, and also the records released as the Milcho [...]
Valentin Ceccaldi is an improvising cellist who is at the centre of the free improvisation scene in France in groups such as those led by his elder brother Theo Ceccaldi, also with the Hermia Ceccaldi Darrifourcq Trio and groups featuring [...]
Ahead of upcoming tour dates in Spain, France and Switzerland, Daniel García spoke to Rosa Sawer about his most recent album, ‘Wonderland’ (ACT, 2024) cooking, his own Hero’s Journey and looks forward to his next solo album with piano and [...]
Swiss, London-based accordionist and producer Anatole Muster came to London almost four years ago to study at the Royal Academy of Music, where he is set to complete his undergraduate jazz studies this September. Though only 23, he has already [...]
Pianist and composer Steve Tromans has long been a cornerstone artist on the Birmingham jazz scene, and has also travelled widely as a musician and educator. And sitarist Jonathan Mayer – son of Indo Jazz Fusions founder John Mayer – [...]
Arts Council England announces today that it will be supporting a UK stand at the world’s largest jazz showcase, trade fair and industry gathering, jazzahead!, which is held in Bremen, 24-26 April, 2025. FULL TEXT OF ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND MEDIA [...]
Preceded by a concert in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, saxophonist Phil Bancroft’s new trio, The Beautiful Storm marks the launch of its debut album, Finding Hope (When All Seems Lost) with appearances at Aberdeen Jazz Festival and the Novus weekend in Edinburgh as [...]
Roy. He was a hero to me, and the fact that I could call him a dear friend is something I never took lightly. My band would often follow Roy’s into Ronnie Scott’s after his two-week residency. I’d always try [...]
Several artists with strong UK connections are listed in the nominees for this year’s German Jazz Prize, announced today… Best of luck to Kit Downes (Piano /Keyboards)… Bex Burch (Drums Percussion)… Ingrid Laubrock (Woodwind)… Ruth Goller (Album of the Year) [...]
As a young trombonist growing up in Blackpool, one of the first jazz albums I owned was The Very Best of NYJO, which was given to me as a Christmas present by my Mum and Dad. A sprawling four disc [...]
This concert was the culmination of a week-long residency for NYC-based pianist Helen Sung in Guildhall’s Jazz Department, a week during which – so I was told by a number of those involved – she has imparted a particularly positive, [...]
Claire Cope is an interpreter of tales. The pianist’s latest compositions, inspired by female explorers and written for an eleven-piece ensemble, rise and fall across dramatic narrative arcs. One can only hear a ten-minute musical hero’s journey so many times [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist Spike Wilner, who co-owns and operates the indispensable NYC clubs Smalls and Mezzrow. Wilner’s new album, The Children and the Warlock – a tribute to his late mentor, [...]
Dorothy Lawson is a Canadian-born cellist and a founding member of acclaimed string quartet ETHEL and a longtime member of the Ron Carter Nonet. She has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the White Oak Dance Project, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the [...]
It’s not news because everyone with an interest in jazz or design already knows: the Blue Note record label was in its prime one of the most perfectly made marriages of form and content, packaging and product ever devised, in [...]
This special celebratory evening at the Royal Academy was the convergence of two major projects coming to fruition. Firstly it was the launch event for the book ‘Song for Someone – The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler’, a biography of [...]
Two monumental, apocalyptic works, Octavia E. Butler’s dystopian novel, Parable of the Sower, and The Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament, were explored in two unique performances by formidable groups of musicians and vocalisers assembled by [...]
Released on 7 March to celebrate International Woman’s Day the following day, Ensemble C’s new album Every Journey demonstrates that the UK has found a gem of a composer in Claire Cope. Upscaling from the septet of her 2020 debut [...]
