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Blue Note has announced that Branford Marsalis is joining the label. The first release, Belonging, will feature his regular quartet with Joey Calderazzo, Eric Revis, and Justin Faulkner. Blue Note also point out that Marsalis’s last appearance on the label [...]
Love Supreme Festival has just announced some of the names for the next festival. More releases to follow: Smokey Robinson (first UK show in 15 years) Maxwell (Sunday headliner, UK exclusive) Branford Marsalis Stanley Clarke Lakecia Benjamin Sampa The Great [...]
Winners of the 12th Scottish Jazz Awards were announced last night 28 November at a ceremony at The Savings Bank venue in Glasgow: The Winners are: Rising Star Award, sponsored by Musicians’ Union – Laura Oghagbon Best Instrumentalist Award, sponsored [...]
Guitarist Timmy Allan came through a tightly competitive final to win the BBC Radio Scotland Young Jazz Musician 2024 at a session held at the corporation’s Pacific Quay HQ and broadcast live on air. Allan, a 28-year-old fourth year student [...]
The other finalists were: Brief bio: Ursula Harrison (22) is from Pontygwaith, South Wales. A prolific composer, Ursula’s band Orbit Street was selected as a Forté Project artist for 2024, recording a new EP, Forest, and performing across Wales and [...]
Sad news indeed. Editor-in-chief Annie Annie van der Velde has just announced that Jazzism, the leading jazz magazine in the Netherlands, is to close. She has written, in a widely distributed email: (quote begins) “It was with a heavy heart [...]
The 38 Showcase participants for jazzahead! 2025, th world’s largest jazz trade fair, are announced today. Here is the list as just announced – and today’s full press release is HERE
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jazzahead!, the world’s largest trade fair for jazz, has appointed Freelance Musician and Arts Consultant Nick Brown as its UK and Ireland Ambassador: Nick Brown writes: “The UK’s presence at jazzahead! 2024 made a real impact, with UK Jazz News [...]
Saxophonist Rachel Musson and drummer Mark Sanders were among the winners at last night’s Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2024. Background: “Now in its 30th year, PHF’s Awards for Artists support visual artists and composers at a critical moment [...]
Legendary drummer and NEA Jazz Master Roy Haynes has passed away at the age of 99. According to Nate Chinen, reporting for the New York Times: “His death, after a brief illness, was confirmed by his daughter, Leslie Haynes-Gilmore.” UKJN [...]
