The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) celebrates 40 years of recognising outstanding contributors to the UK music industry with the 40th anniversary Gold Badge Awards on Wednesday 16 October at The Savoy Hotel in London’s Strand, sponsored by the Performing Rights Society for Music.
A barnstorming tour by young UK bands Roller Trio (pictured) and GoGo Penguin kicks off on 1 October at Manchester’s Band on the Wall in a double bill of new and eclectic progressive jazz.
Acclaimed improv saxophonist Paul Dunmall (pictured) is celebrating the year of his 60th birthday with a newly formed sextet and a tour that kicks off on 26 October at Birmingham's MAC.
Genre-hopping virtuoso pianist Joanna MacGregor (pictured) is at the heart of a new audiovisual touring project exploring graphic scores – whereby graphic artworks, comic strips and abstract contemporary art replaces standard notation – early pioneers of which include the likes of György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and latterly such experimental composers such as Earle Brown, John Cage and Brian Eno.
With a career spanning more than four decades drummer Ginger Baker has been bestowed many epithets such as legendary, brilliant, influential, irascible, rude, hell-raiser etc, yet Friday night at The Stratford Circus bore testament to the more positive and creative traits that helped define the man.
With typical heartiness Alex Wilson introduces himself as a “guy from Derbyshire” to mark a contrast with the global village represented by his band – Italian double bassist Davide Mantovani, Cuban trombonist-vocalist Rene Alvarez, Sri Lankan-British trumpeter Shanti Paul Jayasinha and Venezuelan percussionist Edwin Sanz.
Composer, pianist and arranger Mike Westbrook and vocalist and lyricist Kate Westbrook (pictured left) are bringing their latest work, The Serpent Hit – a harrowing glimpse into the future – to Wilton’s Music Hall, in London’s borough of Tower Hamlets, on 1 October, as they launch the album of the same name and celebrate 40 years of working together.
Pianist and composer Liam Noble’s brand new band Brother Face have announced a series of autumn concerts, beginning 20 September.
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Guitar legend Pat Metheny is set to return with his much-praised Unity Group project with a new studio album, entitled
