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 [...]
When I last heard Sweet Honey in the Rock weaving their vocal magic their guiding light Bernice Johnson Reagon was still a powerful force on stage. Reagon’s death in July this year has added a sober note to the group’s [...]
Festival Pavilion, Museum Green, Swansea. 14 June 2024. For the 2024 Swansea International Jazz Festival – which coincides with Sir Karl Jenkins’ 80th birthday year – Festival Director Dave Cottle and Sir Karl got together with Laurence Cottle and hatched [...]
The early jazz music of legendary composer Sir Karl Jenkins will feature at this year’s Swansea International Jazz Festival as part of his 80th birthday year celebrations. Sir Karl, who is also Patron of the Festival, has, together with bassist [...]
On a sunny evening, Wednesday 8 May, Immy Churchill, Louise Balkwill and Becky Alice performed a gig at Oliver’s to celebrate the music of Anita Wardell, and to raise money to help with her recovery. Link to GoFundMe below. Becky [...]
In a press release today, Edinburgh-born Andrew Bain is announced as the New Head of Jazz at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, as the successor to bassist Paula Gardiner, who has been in the role since 2001. [...]
Festivals and conferences crowd the Summer calendar: the World Harp Congress now in session in Cardiff is a bit of a hybrid of both. Harpists of all persuasions gathered for the first time in Europe for 14 years, at an [...]
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales were the hosts for this concert in the well-appointed surroundings of the Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff’s Millennium Centre. Their guest, in one of their CoLaboratory series of concerts was French-Irish musical polymath, violinist, composer [...]
Sebastian writes: One could sense the frustration and disappointment in Buster Birch’s voice today… Buster is Director of the Original UK Jazz Summer School had been hoping to hold this year’s course as a residential event, but he rang to [...]
Travel to another planet from your living room with Dutch band Tin Men and the Telephone and their Get Away Space Agency. For this virtual tour of British music colleges and concert halls, the trio had been reduced to a [...]
