Latest Jazz News from London and beyond
Jazz North have been in touch to tell us about the five “genre-bending, northern-flag-sailing jazz artists” who will form the next cohort for Northern Line – “the live talent development programme for jazz across the North.” The artists, announced today, [...]
Very sad news to report: the death a couple of days ago of the great drummer and bandleader Tony Kinsey at the age of 97. John Bungey wrote a preview for UKJN of the celebratory evening which Way Out West [...]
Swanage Jazz Festival, “the oldest and probably the largest pure Jazz Festival on the South Coast of England”, has made its first 2025 programme announcement. This 34th festival takes place over three days, from Friday 11 July – Sunday 13 [...]
The Jazz FM Awards are back for 2025. The most recent set was in 2022 (winners below). The 2025 Awards will be held at KOKO in Camden Town on 24 April 2025, which is also the opening night of the [...]
We are sad to hear from Cath Longbottom (*) that the influential, liked and admired pianist and educator Howard Riley died on Saturday, just a few days before what would have been his 82nd birthday. Howard had suffered from Parkinson’s, [...]
We list the jazz winners at the 2025 Grammys (*). First the jazz categories – with all nominees listed, and winners in bold – then other winners with a jazz connection. This is done at speed, and readers are welcome [...]
For the second in the series of four concerts that saxophonist Helena Kay has been invited to curate at the venue the saxophonist’s quartet will be revisiting Golden Sands, Kay’s second album. It’s the opening act, improvising folk duo Norman&Corrie, [...]
This is just to wish the very great Gary Crosby a very happy 70th birthday today. Double bassist… composer… arranger… educator..possibly the most influential and definitely one of the nicest, kindest and most thoughtful people on the UK jazz scene. [...]
Vuelio, “the leading UK provider of PR & media solutions: media database, media monitoring, press release distribution and campaign analysis” keep a database of 11,000 UK blogs and rank them by category, including an annual ranking of the Top 10 [...]
The screening of “Whiplash’ with a live band (image above) is the sixth of a series of events in Barbican Hall in the months February-March 2025: Here is the list – the link below goes through to the homepages for [...]
