The new Twelves line-up played an extended set earlier this week featuring material from their forthcoming new album at the Green Note in Camden as part of the London Jazz Festival.
Following on from his groundbreaking jazz opera Bridgetower jazz pianist Julian Joseph, with librettist Mike Phillips, are set to unveil their latest collaboration, an opera set in the world of American baseball.
The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, BASCA, has announced Barry Guy as a finalist in the new category of contemporary jazz composition for the British Composer Awards for his Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra commission, ‘Schweben: Aye But Can Ye?’ The brief for the commission, premiered at the Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Drama in March 2009, was to produce a 25-30 minute work suitable for performance in a variety of settings with or without a conductor that took into...
The Bull’s Head at Barnes last night celebrated its 50 years in jazz, presenting the music seven nights a week down the years.
The early part of 2010 sees a special festival at London restaurant Le QuecumBar in Battersea to coincide with the centenary of Django Reinhardt’s birth.
Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio was one of four small ensembles that stood out at the JazzFest Berlin’s late-night sessions in the Quasimodo club at the weekend.
The jazz-meets-twisted vaudeville of singer/wordsmith Andrew Plummer’s World Sanguine Report band heads out on a UK tour kicking off at the London Jazz Festival on 19 November and then nationwide through November and December.
Cult free jazz drummer Steve Reid (left) is set for two UK club dates this week switching to the Jazz Café in London's Camden tonight and later this week in a special one-off featuring DJ Gilles Peterson at Dalston’s Café Oto.
Hotly tipped vibes and marimba player Jim Hart takes his Gemini group out on the road this month for a nationwide tour in support of his new album, Narrada, released earlier this week by Loop records.
Abdullah Ibrahim, Stan Tracey (left), The Scottish Jazz National Orchestra, Jerry Dammers’ Spatial AKA Orchestra, Gwilym Simcock and Dan Berglund have all been confirmed for next year’s Gateshead International Jazz Festival, the first major UK jazz festival of the year taking place from 26-28 March.
