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The Soho Jazz Festival is growing and incorporates venues such as Crazy Coqs and Pizza Express Dean Street. This year’s eighth festival from Wednesday 11 September to Saturday 14 September involves fifteen stages, 35+ shows and 100 artists… PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY [...]
Lyrics by Sting, Joe Jackson and Kent-based singer-songwriter-activist Nina Clark feature alongside those of Great American Songbook contributors Lorenz Hart and Sammy Kahn and the singer himself in Kurt Elling’s latest concerts with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. Kurt Elling, [...]
Saxophonist, composer and arranger Asha Parkinson draws on influences from many musical styles and cultures to create her own distinctive body of work. Ahead of the release of Possession, her debut album, Parkinson spoke about her musical development, the creation [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and trumpeter, composer, arranger, and vocalist Danny Jonokuchi. His new big band album, A Decade, was released 23 August via Bandstand Presents. Varying track by track, A Decade’s big band [...]
Cuban-American pianist/composer Fabian Almazan found his musical roots as a child in Havana. Cuba was where he first became involved in the classical piano tradition. As a performer, he has developed a personal voice through the electric manipulation of the [...]
Shez Raja writes: “I’m thrilled to share the news about a homecoming show that holds a lot of significance for me. “On Saturday 28 September I’ll be performing at Future Yard in the Wirral, NW England – the area where [...]
Sometimes two kindred spirits can follow long playing trajectories and reach similar points in jazz’s vast musical landscape. So it is with saxophonist Jon Lloyd and pianist John Law, who first worked together nearly 35 years ago. Their current quartet [...]
Saxophonist Helena Kay and pianist Zoe Rahman will be appearing as a duo next month, as the first of the the new Jazz Thursdays series which she curates at Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh. Helena Kay will relive a moment from [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and trombonist Michael Dease. His new album, Grove’s Groove – a tribute to Roy Hargrove – is out 23 August via Le Coq Records. The nine-song collection features Dease on baritone sax instead of trumpet, [...]
“Mothers In Jazz” reached its hundredth interview in early July. The 100th was with Dee Dee Bridgewater, the 99th was with Norma Winstone, and the 98th was with the creator of the series, Nicky Schrire. The series returns from a [...]
