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Part 1: Programme Details

The radio producer Folded Wing has put out a Press Release ahead of the opening of the new show “‘Round Midnight with Soweto Kinch”: (press release begins) ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT BEGINS APRIL 1st ON BBC RADIO 3 AND ON BBC SOUNDS. [...]

Part 2: Interview

BBC Radio 3’s ‘Round Midnight, the new five-nights-a-week show starts on Monday 1 April. Soweto Kinch is the presenter. ‘Round Midnight, BBC Radio 3’s new late-night jazz show, produced by Folded Wing, begins its five-nights-a-week schedule on 1 April, making [...]

Bill Stewart, in the trio with Larry Goldings and Peter Bernstein, will be playing in Dorking (16 April) and London (17 & 18 April). Canadian musician writer T Bruce Wittet explores in depth Bill Stewart’s sound and influences… I have [...]

Voting has just opened in the public round of voting for the nine categories of the Parliamentary Jazz Awards and will close on 29 March at 11pm (Extract from the Press release begins) The Parliamentary Awards celebrate and recognise the [...]

25-28 April

The reliably eclectic biennial Bristol New Music festival returns for a long weekend at the end of April (25th-28th). As usual, there are shows in venues large and small, this time round including the newly refurbished Bristol Beacon and the [...]

With a month to go before jazzahead! 2024, the world’s largest jazz trade fair, 11-13 April in Bremen, it’s definitely time to be looking forward. LJN has been asked to run the UK umbrella stand (*) in celebration of our [...]

Here is an announcement made earlier today which has appeared on the Brasserie Zedel website: There is more information on the Spice Jazz Soho Facebook page: “SpiceJazz Soho is relocating to Crazy Coqs Piccadilly from Wednesday 3rd April. Changes continue [...]

Jazz Café POSK, 23 Mar

Composer / producer/vocalist/ multi-instrumentalist Xantoné Blacq and his all-star band including Troy Miller will explore and celebrate the jazz funk music innovations and collaborations of Herbie Hancock @ Jazz Café POSK on Saturday 23rd of March. “The influence of Herbie [...]

International Women’s Day has been a focus for LondonJazz News since Fran Hardcastle started the series in 2011. Our 2024 editor is Kai Hoffman, who has done several of the interviews this year. Features to be published this Friday 8 [...]

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