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A good festival balances high quality and interesting programming with location and atmosphere. And it’s certainly so often that the location of the festival is not in the usual city but in “borderlands” with an openness to different cultures coming [...]
Legendary vocalist Elaine Delmar has a new album, about to be released. It is her first in ten years, and has been in the making since the harrowing days of Covid. Recorded on Ubuntu Music, Speak Low is, at last, [...]
“I originally started the festival because I found there were many similarities, to me, between the beautiful east Kent coast and the classic film Jazz on a Summer’s Day at the Newport Jazz Festival,” says Herne Bay Festival Director Kai [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Korean-born, New York-based composer, arranger and conductor Jihye Lee. On 31 May, Lee followed up her acclaimed 2021 debut with Infinite Connections: a new large ensemble album released via [...]
Nicky Schrire is a British-South African vocalist and songwriter, and the founder of the “Mothers In Jazz” (*) series as published on LondonJazz News/ UK Jazz News. She thought it was about time she answered her own questions and shared [...]
Julian Costello and Vertigo – Julian Costello, tenor and soprano saxophones; Natalie Rozario, cello and vocals; Stefanos Tsourelis, oud and guitar; Sophie Alloway, drums; and special guest Iqbal Pathan, tabla – launch their new album (on the Elsden Music label) [...]
“As a drummer he had it all: the sound, the touch, the ability to communicate and to react at the drop of a hat. “ Canadian drummer and writer T Bruce Wittet remembers Danish drummer Alex Riel. Although he no [...]
Nordic jazz vocalist/saxophonist Mads Mathias has written this personal tribute to drummer Alex Riel, an important figure in the history of Danish jazz, who has died aged 83. Alex Riel was supposed to become a hairdresser like his father and [...]
Trumpeter Steven Nichols, originally from the Cotswolds, was set on playing the trumpet from a very early age. A 2022 graduate from the Royal Academy of Music, and these days consistently praised for his fabulous sound, his debut album From [...]
Camila Meza is a Chilean guitarist and vocalist. She has recorded and performed with musicians including Fabian Almazan, Kendrick Scott and Shai Maestro. A graduate of The New School of Music in New York City, Camila combines elements of jazz, [...]
