Latest Jazz News from London and beyond
The unfailingly creative pianist and composer Keith Tippett, who died last Summer, worked in a remarkable range of styles and settings over 50 years of music-making. So the idea of an event to explore his legacy quickly expanded beyond the [...]
Jazz musicians Cassie Kinoshi, Soweto Kinch, Yazz Ahmed and Tim Garland are among composers each receiving Paul Hamlyn awards of £25,000 with no strings attached. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has announced it is making 20 awards of £25,000 to a [...]
Singers Norma Winstone MBE, Georgia Mancio and Claire Martin, drummer Jas Kayser and saxophonist Nubya Garcia are among the recipients of the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2021, announced in an online presentation streamed from Pizza Express, Dean Street. Norma Winstone, who [...]
Will Arnold-Forster has just been in touch about the resumption of Monday night gigs to restricted audiences at the Oxford Tavern in Kentish Town The programme for the first few weeks is in the image above. Booking links.. information on [...]
Love Supreme Festival is looking forward to putting on a festival in Summer 2022. In the meantime it has launched a successful Love You Live podcast series. The first episode was put out on 15 June and we have has [...]
The winner of the Scottish New Music Innovation in Jazz award for 2021 is trombonist Liam Shortall for his corto.alto nu-jazz project. Liam Shortall has been producing recordings and videos featuring a galaxy of young upcoming performers from his flat [...]
The nominations are announced for the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2021. Winners will be announced on Monday 26 July. LJN (UKJazz News) is very honoured to be nominated; thank you to the people who took the trouble to put [...]
The Lowestoft Jazz Weekend returns in September, running from the Thursday 16 to Sunday 19, writes promoter Bob Blizzard: After successful festivals in 2018 and 2019, the event, like most others, had to be cancelled last year because of coronavirus. [...]
The Crazy Coqs venue at Brasserie Zedel opened in 2012, so it will be celebrating ten years next year. It’s an intimate venue, right next to Piccadilly Circus tube, and ideal for small scale jazz and cabaret. JUNE AND JULY [...]
A Press release this morning from the EFG London Jazz Festival is announcing a number of shows. The full text of the press release is as follows. Festival website link and previously announced shows below: TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE: TEXT [...]
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