Latest Jazz News from London and beyond
It’s around this time in the month of November that jazz fans from around the country are looking to organise their schedules, book trains and sort out which shows in the 2024 EFG London Jazz Festival they’ll be attending. The [...]
Alto saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Lou Donaldson has passed away at the age of 98. Sharing the news on Facebook earlier today, Champian Fulton wrote: “Dear friends, I’m so sorry to share that our friend, hero, and Jazz legend [...]
Here is (A) a list of the nominees in the jazz categories at the 2025 Grammy Awards, and (B) a list of the nominations for jazz people in other categories. Readers are very welcome to add if we have missed [...]
Brick Lane Jazz Festival, in partnership with Jazz re:freshed and Tomorrow’s Warriors, have announced their first wave of artists for 2025. Returning for a fourth year and headlined by Ragz Orginale, Adi Oasis and Laraaji, it will take place in [...]
Greg Spero is a pianist, composer, producer and educator from Los Angeles. He will be returning to Ronnie Scott’s, this time joined by the London version of his jazz fusion group Spirit Fingers featuring Lox (drums), Ben Glasser (guitar), and [...]
The great record producer, composer and arranger Quincy Jones has died at the age of 91. The news was confirmed by his publicist, Arnold Robinson, who said he “passed away peacefully” on Sunday night. UKJN will have tributes later to [...]
Nestled unassumingly in Nine Elms, Battersea, is one of South London’s best kept secrets for serious music lovers – World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens. This state-of-the-art concert hall, recording studio and music academy doesn’t pop up in the list of [...]
Buxton International Festival announced its 2025 jazz line-up at a special launch party yesterday at The Palace Hotel, Buxton. The festival’s popular Jazz Weekender tickets are now on sale, granting access to all BIF jazz events during the festival’s opening [...]
The recipients of the 2024 Parliamentary Jazz Awards were announced earlier this evening, Tuesday 29 October 2024 Jazz Vocalist of the Year: Emma Smith Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year: Emma Rawicz Jazz Album of the Year : Zoe Rahman “The [...]
It is sad to report a genuine jazz hero and lover of the music, the founder of Hep Records Alastair Robertson. He was originally from Aberdeen, lived most of his life in Edinburgh where his day job was as an [...]
