Saxophonist Jason Yarde (left) won the newly introduced Contemporary Jazz Composition category at the British Composer Awards held at the Law Society in London last night for his work Rhythm and Other Fascinations.
An inspired choice for the sole jazz concert in the first-ever Wimbledon Music Festival, Tony Kinsey delighted his audience with an evening of excellent big band music, all of which he either composed or arranged.
Scene-setters Three Trapped Tigers put in a bold performance at the Lexington in north London to a wildly enthusiastic audience.
Chelsea’s 606 club has announced some important bookings during December and January including a special performance by the Nigel Kennedy Quintet, Peter King with his quintet featuring Mornington Lockett, the Liane Carroll Trio and two special Yamaha nights, featuring a launch for this month’s Jazzwise covermount CD, New Jazz Sessions, and a Yamaha trumpet night featuring Ryan Quigley, Paul Eshelby with the Gareth Williams Trio and guests.
Jazzwise has joined together with Yamaha to give readers a superb free covermount CD, The Yamaha New Jazz Sessions, with the December 09/January 10 double issue, in the shops today.
Gwilym Simcock (left) launches his new double album Blues Vignette with his trio this week as Jazzwise hits the streets, at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in London on Friday and then beds in for a season at the Soho club with guests coming down to join him in the basement venue.
Life Cycles, a newly commissioned work by Hospital Arts, part of the Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity, will be performed by the composer, musician, writer and music therapist Jonathan Cohen tomorrow evening at the Royal College of Music in London.
A brace of contrasting performances from trend-setting UK saxophonist Finn Peters and German piano sensation Michael Wollny proved the wisdom of returning The Pheasantry to London’s live music circuit.
Walthamstow jazz-skronk-rockers Led Bib – who play a sold out gig at the Vortex tonight as part of the London Jazz Festival – continue to reap the rewards of their Mercury Music Prize-nominated album Sensible Shoes by signing a worldwide media synchronisation deal with prestigious publishers Faber Music.
Jeff Clyne, who died of a heart attack on 16 November, was one of the UK’s greatest jazz bassists.
