As he looks forward to this year’s Swanage Jazz Festival, and announces the programme, Festival Chair Paul Kelly writes: Swanage Jazz Festival has the most stunning setting with the Mowlem Theatre sited at the water’s edge and the lovely greenfield [...]
Well here’s a surprise! Australian-born Jo Lawry is best known as a singer with Sting (‘backing singer’ rather under-rates her role I think) with whom she has toured the world, complementing the songsmith’s vocals. She demonstrated a memorable and endearing [...]
The Concorde Club in Eastleigh, just north of Southampton, is a forgotten landmark of British Jazz. It opened in 1957, the same year that Tubby Hayes formed the celebrated Jazz Couriers with Ronnie Scott, and a good two years before [...]
The post-industrial seaside Dorset town of Poole definitely has a capacity to spring surprises: not only is it home to the world’s second-largest natural harbour (extra trivia points for naming Sydney as the largest…) it also boasts an intimate jazz [...]
