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NYJO (National Youth Jazz Orchestra) is announcing today that Yvette Griffith OBE, Chief Executive and Executive Director of Jazz re:freshed is joining NYJO as its new CEO . Yvette received an OBE in the 2024 New Year’s Honours for services [...]
The nominations for the 2024 Parliamentary Jazz Awards have been announced today. The Awards are organised by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Group (APPJG) and supported by PPL. The recipients of the 2024 Parliamentary Jazz Awards will be announced at [...]
Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli pays tribute to Irène Schweizer, to her unique role as “the encourager“ and remembers the astonishing flow and incisiveness of her playing… and her laugh. “HA!”. Irene had a way of laughing which was short and [...]
A new restaurant and live music venue offering “jazz, soul, gospel, reggae and much more”, Soul Mama, will open next month at The Gantry Hotel, Stratford with an opening season programme which includes Yellowjackets (3 Nov, two houses) and Bill [...]
BBC Radio Scotland is announcing a second competition for its Young Jazz Musician of the Year. Applications open today 29 July and close on 15 September The press release gives background: “The award is intended to encourage and highlight the wealth [...]
Gaume Jazz reaches its 40th edition in 2024. Which is all the more impressive because the festival resolutely remains outside the mainstream, and has had the same artistic director, Jean-Pierre Bissot, since the start. It takes place in the village [...]
Here is the complete text of today’s press release jointly issued by Brubeck Living Legacy Inc, Ubuntu Music, and The Royal Academy of Music announcing saxophonist Kasper Rietkerk, originally from Zwolle in the Netherlands and now partly based in London [...]
EFG LJF 2024 is taking shape – the organisers of the London Jazz Festival are putting out a series of monthly press releases during the summer with a “wave” of artists each time. The most recent, from the end of [...]
Had Alan Dawson lived, 14 July 2024 would have been his 95th birthday. But for many in the drum-playing fraternity, he is still very much alive. The Boston-area native stands as one of the most dynamic drummers in the history [...]
