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Rob Mallows has been running the London Jazz Meetup group for seventeen years and is announcing that he wants to step down from the role. The group has helped introduce people to live jazz, build audience numbers and build a [...]
Oliver Weindling looks forward to this year’s Inntoene Jazz Festival in Austria, one of Europe’s best boutique festivals, and the creation of the remarkable Paul Zauner (programme listing below) : For over 20 years, Paul Zauner’s Inntoene Festival has taken [...]
Rob Adams writes: Dublin-based Livia Records has announced the September release of a previously unissued recording by two of the world’s leading jazz guitarists, Jim Hall and Louis Stewart. The recording took place in Dublin at Christmas 1982 after Hall [...]
The death of Jim Rotondi, trumpeter and faculty member at the University of Graz, at the age of just 61 has been announced by his wife Julie on Facebook: “Dear all, this is with immense sadness that I have to [...]
The Jazz Centre UK has as its mission “to preserve promote and celebrate the art of jazz music in all its forms”. Its founder and moving spirit, Digby Fairweather and his team have won a victory this year, seen off [...]
It happened. Last week the Vortex asked us to help them invite musicians to a photo-call on Sunday 30 June. Steven Cropper took the photo and here it is. There is a possibility being talked about of limited edition fully [...]
“I’m so happy to announce that my 4th album on ECM Records will be out this autumn. This time a trio with my dear friends and incredible musicians Alice Zawadzki and Misha Mullov-Abbado. The record is called Za Górami (‘Behind [...]
Alex Dutilh‘s show Open Jazz on France-Musique, broadcast from 6pm to 7pm CET, Mondays to Fridays from late August until the end of June is one of the cornerstones of the French jazz scene, and among the most influential jazz [...]
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 [...]
Oliver Weindling informs us of a forthcoming event: “A GREAT DAY IN DALSTON, CALLING ALL MUSICIANS ON SUNDAY 30th JUNE AT 4.30 PM, WE’RE DOING A PHOTO OF AS MANY OF YOU AS POSSIBLE IN GILLETT SQUARE OUTSIDE THE VORTEX. [...]
