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Sebastian writes: the news coverage – about the attempt under way to raise money to re-open The Jazz Bar in Edinburgh has been extensive. The Crowdfunder has now raised over £30,000 and the Edinburgh Evening News is reporting that the [...]
Tim Garland‘s Lighthouse Trio’s 20th anniversary tour began with the London album launch in Kings Place Hall One last night. The tour continues with summer and autumn dates through to November. Put simply, go. John Fordham, in the brilliant feature [...]
Nick and Justyna Mushlin have just launched a crowdfunder under the banner “The New Jazz Bar – Saving The Music”. Their aims are described in detail on their Crowdfunder site – link below – are: “to start a new venture [...]
Speakers Corner Quartet, a pivotal group on the South London music scene, with the Guildhall Session Orchestra and special guests – names will be announced closer to the date of the show – will be performing at the Royal Festival [...]
The popular jazz series Out To Lunch, returns this summer for its 14th year. Initially OTL had a mixed programme that included jazz, but by 2012 jazz took over as the sole genre, reflecting what the audiences requested. Kicking off this June [...]
Pianist Geoff Castle (1949-2020), a member of Ian Carr’s Nucleus, Paz and Carmina was a “a pivotal and seemingly ubiquitous player on the British jazz scene” (Roger Farbey). His output ranged from contemporary Jazz & Latin to Folk and Caribbean. [...]
The news that Kit Downes has recently won the Paul Acket Prize, a major prize in the Netherlands, prompted me to check in with him and to get an update about the range of his current projects and albums. The [...]
Here’s a paradox. Strangely, it seems easier to tell the story of Shabaka Hutchings’s music, and of the recent radical departure in it, by explaining what it isn’t rather than what it is. First, cast an eye over last night’s [...]
BBC Radio 3 has announced its next cohort of New Generation Artists for 2024-2026, among whom is saxophonist/bandleader/composer/arranger Emma Rawicz. Emma becomes the ninth jazz musician to join the scheme, now in its 25th year, and will do so in [...]
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Rosie Frater-Taylor is looking forward to her appearance in the series “Nigel Williams & Jazz FM present”, when she will be singing/playing a live session – and in conversation with Jazz FM’s finest, Nigel Williams, for a [...]
