Saxophonist Rachel Musson and drummer Mark Sanders were among the winners at last night’s Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2024. Background: “Now in its 30th year, PHF’s Awards for Artists support visual artists and composers at a critical moment [...]
Appearances in London by Billy Childs are rare, so his presence last night at Milton Court was reason enough to head out and hear him. The California pianist/composer was the star of a big and fascinatingly complex project, the whole [...]
Here is (A) a list of the nominees in the jazz categories at the 2025 Grammy Awards, and (B) a list of the nominations for jazz people in other categories. Readers are very welcome to add if we have missed [...]
UK saxophonist, vocalist and composer Kim Cypher releases her third album on 22 November. ‘Catching Moments’ – with guests Liane Carroll, Ray Gelato, Ashley Slater and Antonio Forcione – has been four years in the making and follows on from [...]
The recipients of the 2024 Parliamentary Jazz Awards were announced earlier this evening, Tuesday 29 October 2024 Jazz Vocalist of the Year: Emma Smith Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year: Emma Rawicz Jazz Album of the Year : Zoe Rahman “The [...]
After about a year and a half, the duo of Liza Pulman and Joe Stilgoe is gathering momentum . The two clearly have a lot in common and look like they get on well together. They have an album out, [...]
Joachim Kühn’s 80th year is being marked at 2024 Jazzfest Berlin with a special event. The Berlin audience will see and hear a new project which is close to the legendary German pianist’s heart. The concert is set to be [...]
It is sad to report a genuine jazz hero and lover of the music, the founder of Hep Records Alastair Robertson. He was originally from Aberdeen, lived most of his life in Edinburgh where his day job was as an [...]
Stan Sulzmann keeps creating. He told me during lockdown that in addition to writing charts, he would be doing some “online virtual/ YouTube type projects from home so I can record myself.” He made two of these in lockdown (links [...]
If only the other things in our lives could have the same feeling of total ease, effortlessness and joy of a Harold López-Nussa concert. How does everything in this band happen so naturally, or at least appear to do so? [...]
