Inventive saxophonist and multidisciplinary sound artist, Matana Roberts (pictured) continues her exploratory Coin Coin project with a new album, Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile, to be released at the end of September.
Jazz fans and film buffs are in for a treat as the latest edition in the critically acclaimed Jazz on Film series of boxed sets focuses on the rich audiovisual association between French New Wave film directors and US and French jazz giants, while BBC Radio Three’s Jazz On 3 joins forces with BBC 4’s Sound Of Cinema season with a special broadcast tonight of an improvised jazz score to three short silent movies.
London’s 606 Jazz Club, located in Lots Road, Chelsea, is set to play host to three nights of international music as musicians from Hungary and the UK take over the venue for the third British-Hungarian Jazz Festival, which runs from 9-11 October.
The Brazilian duo Adriano Adewale and Benjamim Taubkin are set to play concerts throughout the UK from late September into early October in a tour organised by Making Tracks.
Jazz Promotion Network, a newly UK jazz organisation, is attracting strong support from promoters large and small.
A strong raft of jazz names are among the nominees for Best Jazz Act at the 2013 MOBO Awards including Sons Of Kemet, Courtney Pine, Soweto Kinch, Jazz Jamaica and UK/US group Lineage.
Young jazz-rock fusion trio Preston-Glasgow-Lowe set out on a 17-date Jazz Services/Arts Council supported tour of the UK this October and into November.
Deeply soulful jazz singer Gregory Porter, whose album Liquid Spirit is released today on Blue Note records, will be taking over the Jazzwise Twitter page this afternoon between 4.
Revered saxophonist Branford Marsalis is set to star as guest soloist with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO) for a series of three dates at the end of September that celebrate the music of Wayne Shorter.
Word has been building about Sons of Kemet’s intoxicating new sound for some time now, and with the launch of their album Burn, (sure, like the band, to dominate this year’s ‘best-of’ lists) they have now exploded onto the scene with the impact of one of Oren Marshall’s most blaringly bombastic sirens.
