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The current, first season of jazz at the Drawing Room After Dark in Brown’s Hotel is slipping away fast. The last night of Week 12 is on Thursday 19 December, featuring Art Themen. That means there are just six more [...]
Blue Note has announced that Branford Marsalis is joining the label. The first release, Belonging, will feature his regular quartet with Joey Calderazzo, Eric Revis, and Justin Faulkner. Blue Note also point out that Marsalis’s last appearance on the label [...]
Love Supreme Festival has just announced some of the names for the next festival. More releases to follow: Smokey Robinson (first UK show in 15 years) Maxwell (Sunday headliner, UK exclusive) Branford Marsalis Stanley Clarke Lakecia Benjamin Sampa The Great [...]
Winners of the 12th Scottish Jazz Awards were announced last night 28 November at a ceremony at The Savings Bank venue in Glasgow: The Winners are: Rising Star Award, sponsored by Musicians’ Union – Laura Oghagbon Best Instrumentalist Award, sponsored [...]
The other finalists were: Brief bio: Ursula Harrison (22) is from Pontygwaith, South Wales. A prolific composer, Ursula’s band Orbit Street was selected as a Forté Project artist for 2024, recording a new EP, Forest, and performing across Wales and [...]
This is such a strong album. It deserves to win awards, and probably will. Whereas the word multi-layered gets plastered across countless press releases, what Charlotte Planchou and pianist Mark Priore have given us with Le Carillon is the full [...]
This was my gig of the festival, and one of my gigs of the year. My reason for having wanted to be there was clear: a chance to catch a London appearance by no fewer than three major figures from [...]
Jamie Cullum‘s Royal Festival Hall show was one of the very first concerts of this year’s LJF to sell out, and it also clearly brought back happy memories for Cullum himself. The crucial early turning-point in his career was in [...]
There are time at jazz gigs when everything is pefectly aligned, times when they are definitely not, and in this case in the course of the same gig. Start with the best: I had gone to Pizza Express to marvel [...]
Sad news indeed. Editor-in-chief Annie Annie van der Velde has just announced that Jazzism, the leading jazz magazine in the Netherlands, is to close. She has written, in a widely distributed email: (quote begins) “It was with a heavy heart [...]
