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The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with singer April May Webb, winner of the 13th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. The so-called SASSY Awards took place on 24 November, and Webb won out against Syndee Winters [...]
Multi-instrumentalist Eki Shola’s music transcends genre, as she seamlessly draws from jazz, electronica, and soul music to create a sonic landscape all her own. Born in London to Jamaican parents, Eki was raised in a musical family. She emigrated to [...]
Paddy Milner is widely recognised as one of the leading blues piano players in the world today. In addition to his solo work as a songwriter and singer, he is currently keyboard player of choice for Sir Tom Jones, having previously worked [...]
Singer and soul veteran Madeline Bell will be the RNCM Big Band’s guest star at their concert on Friday 13 December in the RNCM Theatre. For some time now, the Royal Northern College of Music’s (RNCM) Big Band has treated [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade. Three Visitors – their new album alongside pianist Edward Simon, featuring guests Becca Stevens, Chris Potter, Jana Dagdagan and Rogério Boccato – was released [...]
Robin Phillips is a singer, pianist, bandleader, presenter, producer, and educator. After quitting a post-graduate job in PR in 2006, he started to build a full-time career in music, one gig at a time, moving to London before relocating to [...]
When the New York Times reported the passing of Roy Haynes last week, American drummer Adam Nussbaum wrote on Facebook: “What a treasure! he was from the past, but it sounded like he was born in the future”. Charlie Rees [...]
The Down for the Count Swing Orchestra will be touring with Swing Into Christmas! until 28 December, bringing its own brand of festive musical cheer to audiences across the UK. Mike Paul-Smith, its musical director, spoke to UK Jazz News [...]
The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator Isaiah Collier. Collier’s second album of 2024, The World is On Fire, was released on 18 October. Like its immediate predecessor, The Almighty, The World is [...]
Naomi Moon Siegel is an American trombonist, improviser, composer, and educator. Her original musical vocabulary draws on the richness of a variety of global musical traditions and the sonorities of the natural world. Naomi explores the trombone as a vehicle [...]
