Jazz breaking news: Jazz FM Makes Efforts To Help Make Malaria No More
- Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Jazz FM will be celebrating its partnership with the Malaria No More UK charity this month with a weekend of African-inspired programming.
Jazz FM will be celebrating its partnership with the Malaria No More UK charity this month with a weekend of African-inspired programming.
Next month’s Southport Jazz Festival is set to celebrate its tenth anniversary over the late-May bank holiday weekend from 27-30 May.
Today is the first official day of the Oxford Jazz Festival which runs through until Easter Sunday.
The Norfolk and Norwich Festival has pulled of a major coup this year with the booking of guitar legend John McLaughlin as headliner for this year’s festival which begins on 7 May and runs until the 22nd.
The full programme for the Bath International Music Festival, which runs from 26 May to 6 June, is now available.
Starting in May, the Royal Albert Hall will begin a Late Night Jazz Series in the recently refurbished Elgar Room, playing host to evenings of jazz, swing, cabaret and Brazilian rhythm.
This year’s Glasgow Jazz Festival has been confirmed for 18-27 June with headliners Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
Martin Taylor is among the guitarists lining up to mark Django Reinhardt’s centenary, reforming his Spirit of Django group for a new album, Last Train to Hauteville, and a string of tour dates.
The Barclays Cheltenham Jazz Festival, with one of the broadest programmes in its 15-year history, has now confirmed its full line-up with further announcements of this year's fringe due soon.
Peter Horvath, the Hungarian born jazz-funk keyboardist, will be joined by Randy Brecker (trumpet), Kai Eckhardt (electric bass) and Sean Rickman (drums) for a four night residency at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho between 13 and 16 May.