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 [...]
Wakefield Jazz have been hosting top quality gigs for over 30 years at their Wakefield Sports Club home, and Friday night’s event was no exception. Following a successful performance at The Vortex on Wednesday, Alexander Hawkins and Marco Colonna brought [...]
This performance by Rob Cope’s ‘Gemini’ was the second half of the opening concert of the 15th series of concerts in Sandbach. Originally setup in 2010 by local musicians Andy and Lauren Scott, the momentum for the series has really [...]
John Arnett writes: Taking place over four days in one of the cinemas of the very congenial Ambleside institution that is Zeffirellis, this four day festival was the seventh, annually, in what has proved to be a highly successful and [...]
Seven concerts… seventeen (so far) listed musicians. Lists below… Derek Hook started the Ambleside Days Festival, “a Contemporary Music Festival in the heart of the English Lake District”, in 2017. This year’s edition builds to a large ensemble concert [...]
First night in Buxton, and a double bill of Madeline Bell and Judi Jackson. Having interviewed Judi Jackson prior to the Festival (link below), I could already visualise what to expect: barefoot in the likeness of her idol Nina Simone, [...]
