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A first look through the BBC Proms Press Release reveals a few jazz and jazz-related events (with extracts from the press release in inverted commas). Booking opens on 16 May. Link to Proms homepage below. 24 July Nick Drake: An [...]
In today’s first of four monthly announcements, the EFG London Jazz Festival announces 24 shows for the first time today. Jamie Cullum’s show at the RFH has already been announced and is sold out. LISTING Friday, 15 Nov Opening Gala: [...]
The Darius Brubeck Quartet (Darius Brubeck – piano, Dave O’Higgins – sax, Matt Ridley – bass, Wesley Gibbens – drums) will play at Jazz Café POSK, Saturday 11 May 2024, their first appearance at the Hammersmith venue. UKJazz News: We [...]
Who dares say yes to playing in Gareth Lockrane’s band? Just to be asked is probably one of the biggest compliments that a musician can receive in British jazz. Only our very best can physically reproduce Lockrane’s monstrous repertoire live, [...]
Joe Lovano’s work with Marilyn Crispell and Carmen Castaldi has been one of his main creative outlets now since 2018, with a trio of lauded albums on ECM showing three masters deepening their interaction. While Crispell brings capacious piano technique [...]
This was so much more than a concert. It was a true celebration of the life and work of the great Bobby Wellins, with friends and family in attendance. The audience also included bassist Adrian Kendon (from Bobby’s Quartet) and [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and composer, arranger and conductor Vince Mendoza, as well as drummer, composer and educator Douglas Marriner. Both are involved in four special concerts to honour the centenary of the Academy [...]
There’s something of a resurgence in jazz harp at the moment.. On 7 May, Ben Creighton Griffiths brings his Cardiff-based ‘harp-led, electro-acoustic jazz fusion band’ Chube for its London debut at Pizza Express in Dean Street. On a Zoom call [...]
“What should a modern day jazz song look like?” was the conundrum Kazuo Ishiguro had to wrestle when Stacey Kent first asked him to pen some original lyrics. The genial Nobel and Booker laureate confessed his initial trepidation as he [...]
John Etheridge’s Blue Spirits will be performing at a Benefit Concert for the Herne Bay Jazz Festival at the King’s Hall in Herne Bay on 20 April. In this interview, John talks about guitars…Sting…the passing of John Marshall…and starts with [...]
