The Jazz Sanctuary is a monthly music event in South West London which brings together established and emerging artists from the UK jazz scene. Promoter/organiser Sarah Meyer talked to AJ Dehany about a club that’s now making surprising and confident [...]
The Herts Jazz Festival returns in October, running from Friday 15 to Sunday 17. Oh, to be in Bishops Stortford at festival time. Well, that’s what it feels like writing this preview piece some months ahead of the restored Herts [...]
Familiar to jazz enthusiasts for having played double bass with many of the country’s best ensembles, it’s also probably fair to say that bassist Matt Ridley must be one of the most dapper musicians in British jazz (as can be [...]
In the latest of our series in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, bassist Matt Ridley (*) writes about Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš: When I was approached to [...]
This eagerly-anticipated gig was massively over-subscribed, and it’s not difficult to see why. 23-year-old Londoner Deschanel Gordon has already scaled the heights: last year he not only won the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year but graduated from Trinity [...]
The Programme is announced for the 2021 Herts Jazz Festival. The dates are 15 to 17 October. It will be at the South Mill Arts in Bishop’s Stortford. Headliners for the evening concerts are the Darius Brubeck Quartet on the [...]
City Music Foundation (CMF) is a charity with a mission to ‘turn talent into success’. The 2021 round of their mentoring scheme is now open for applications from professional musicians, normally at the beginning their careers in in classical, jazz, [...]
Two organisations have just announced the winners of their awards… Letter One Rising Stars have announced their award winners: American saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins and Israeli trumpeter Itamar Borochov respectively are the winners of Letter One’s North American and European awards. [...]
“Ten Past Never”, the new, third album from Enzo Zirilli’s ZiroBop, his Anglo-Italian group with guitarists Alessandro Chiappetta and Rob Luft, and bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado, is released on Ubuntu. Drummer/percussionist and jazz educator Enzo Zirilli has established an enduring and [...]
