Saxophonist Scott Hamilton calls Pizza Express Jazz Club “a truly special place of jazz”. His new quartet album “Scott Hamilton Quartet at PizzaExpress Live In London” is being released on 14 April 2023. It is the first album to be [...]
Ira Gitler wrote of Tadd Dameron (1917-1965): “His melodies were so beautiful, but at the same time, they swung. He was airborne, to me. He was in the heavens before he got there.” Dameronia’s Legacy All-Stars, a Euro-American octet, celebrates [...]
“Everything you want from a British seaside but with amazing music thrown in for one weekend” is how Kai Hoffman describes the Herne Bay Jazz and Swing Festival, taking place at the Pier Stage on 20 and 21 August. All [...]
The idea for a spiritual jazz reimagining of St. Francis of Assisi’s mystical prayer The Canticle of the Sun was sparked when award-winning clarinettist and composer Arun Ghosh was browsing a second-hand bookshop near London’s Tottenham Court Road and came [...]
Manchester is in for a true summer treat at the end of June, when the Royal Northern College of Music Big Band performs with pianist and composer Nikki Iles and guitarist Mike Walker, giving jazz lovers the chance to hear [...]
The striking cover of the new The Filthy Six EP Soho Filth (Live from Dean St Studios) reflects the colourful origins of the London-based sextet, who began their journey playing in The Tatty Bogle club in Soho, writes Martin Chilton. [...]
The Jazz Repertory Company’s latest show, Bossa Nova with Strings, will be premiered at London’s Cadogan Hall on Sunday 21 November. It promises to be a night of glittering variety. As well as songs from the repertoire of Frank Sinatra [...]
Singer and writer Nishla Smith is about to launch her debut album, Friends with Monsters (Whirlwind Recordings). She “is a natural storyteller” and the album is “a set of inventive narratives around the subject of night-time restlessness.“ The album is [...]
Bex Burch’s trio Vula Viel, with Jim Hart on drums and Ruth Goller on bass are shortly setting off on tour, starting in Brighton on 14 October, with subsequent gigs in Poole, at London’s Café Oto (on Saturday 16 October), [...]
So Nice is the debut album of Dutch vocalist Wilma Baan. It is also the very first release to be produced by the new ‘Soup to Nuts’ production company, jointly run by Claire Martin and Chris Traves. So Nice is [...]
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