“I love the venue.” Fergus McCreadie has had a particular affection for Band on the Wall in Manchester since performing there for the first time in the wake of his 2022 Mercury Prize nomination. His trio with David Bowden and [...]
For the last few years the Forsyth piano showroom has been a popular venue for Manchester Jazz Festival. This continues in 2025 for the 30th Manchester Jazz Festival with James Pearson and his trio performing a tribute to the great [...]
Prior to this evening’s show, my last encounter with the Neil Cowley Trio had been here, at the 2017 Gateshead International Jazz Festival. A very Janus-like performance, the first set was a track-by-track walk through of new album “Spacebound Apes”, [...]
A very quick early-morning perusal of the 2025 BBC Proms programme and I find…. Sat 19 Jul 2025 – 19:00 – Royal Albert Hall – Samara JoyThe Great American Songbook and Beyond with Samara Joy with the BBC Concert Orchestra [...]
Welsh-born, Amsterdam-based saxophonist and composer Alice Leggett is touring in the UK. Her debut album ‘Birdsong’ will be released in May on ZenneZ Records. Feature by Tara Minton. “Where is home?” It’s a question all too familiar to so many [...]
light.box is the duo of Alex Bonney and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, both on electronics, but with Bonney doubling on trumpet and Tremblay doubling on bass guitar. They have made four records, the first just as a duo, the others in [...]
Jazz North have been in touch to tell us about the five “genre-bending, northern-flag-sailing jazz artists” who will form the next cohort for Northern Line – “the live talent development programme for jazz across the North.” The artists, announced today, [...]
The 3rd annual Southport Jazz festival got off to an explosive start on Friday 31 January with the newly formed duo of pianist Gwilym Simcock and soprano and tenor saxophonist Emma Rawicz. They were the second of the three acts [...]
Singer and soul veteran Madeline Bell will be the RNCM Big Band’s guest star at their concert on Friday 13 December in the RNCM Theatre. For some time now, the Royal Northern College of Music’s (RNCM) Big Band has treated [...]
Buxton International Festival announced its 2025 jazz line-up at a special launch party yesterday at The Palace Hotel, Buxton. The festival’s popular Jazz Weekender tickets are now on sale, granting access to all BIF jazz events during the festival’s opening [...]
