Jazz breaking news: Buffalo Collison and Portico Quartet For Band on the Wall
- Monday, February 22, 2010
Reopened recently Manchester venue Band on the Wall has just announced some key bookings for the spring season.
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Jazz Breaking News: Ian Carr Remembered With Special Memorial Concert
- Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tickets are selling fast for a special memorial concert for the trumpeter and writer Ian Carr “A Celebration of his Life And Music” which takes place next week on Tuesday 23 February at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Jazz Breaking News: Eric Alexander, Dave O’Higgins And Alan Barnes For Aberdeen Jazz Festival
- Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Jazz Aberdeen has announced details of the sixth edition of the Aberdeen Jazz Festival, which takes place from 10-14 March presenting some top international players and local Aberdonian jazz musicians.
Jazz Breaking News: Five-day Festival At The Vortex Led By The Loop Collective
- Tuesday, February 16, 2010
To celebrate their fifth year of activity the Loop Collective is taking over the Vortex Jazz club in London for a five-day festival featuring performances from Loop members, collaborations and guest bands from other top European collectives plus Loop friends including F-ire, Yolk, LIMA and Umlaut.
Jazz breaking news: Dune Records To Mount Haiti Benefit
- Monday, February 15, 2010
Next month London-based record company Dune Records is to mount a benefit for the people of Haiti, devastated by the recent earthquake and in so much need of international aid.
Jazz breaking news: Pat Metheny Unveils His Robot Orchestra At The Barbican
- Thursday, February 11, 2010
“People either ask ‘why’ or ‘how’,” Pat Metheny told the Barbican audience last night when he unveiled his extraordinary Orchestrion robot orchestra.
Jazz breaking news: Robert Glasper Raises The Roof At Ronnie’s
- Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The dawn of a new era for the piano trio in jazz was emphatically ushered in last night at Ronnie Scott’s as US pianist Robert Glasper tore the roof off the club in two explosive sets.
Jazz breaking news: Jazz-Dub Experimentalists Ma Rise To The Occasion
- Monday, February 8, 2010
Such has been the development of the Loop Collective’s members that over the last couple of years the term “coming of age” has almost attained cliché status.
Jazz breaking news: Giant of British Jazz Sir John Dankworth Dies at 82
- Saturday, February 6, 2010
Sir John Dankworth, who died today aged 82, was one of the totemic figures of British jazz, the first major jazz musician and the first British bebopper to be knighted, a leading musician, who with his wife Dame Cleo Laine, became known to the broader public beyond the jazz world and to an international audience particularly in America.
Jazz breaking news: Kings Place To Host Festival Featuring Leading European Improvisers
- Friday, February 5, 2010
Kings Place in London, increasingly making a reputation for itself as a place for jazz as well as classical music, hosts a series of concerts, Jazz Scene Europe, next month focusing on some of the leading figures in European jazz today.