The bassist in Courtney Pine’s band, Darren Taylor, unveiled his new innovative Horizon Venture last night at Jackson’s Lane Arts Centre in north London.
Manchester venue Band on the Wall opens its doors on Friday after an extensive four-year redevelopment.
Compositions by pianist Liam Noble commissioned for the E17 Large Ensemble provided an inventive close to the first E17 jazz festival held in Walthamstow at the weekend.
Agharta and Pangaea are two of Miles Davis’ least known albums from the 1970s but ironically they belong to a period which in recent years has influenced a host of new jazz groups from Norway’s Close Erase to Bugge Wesseltoft and a host of new groups on the young UK jazz scene notably Dave Okumu’s Jade Fox, the unrecorded group that was a predecessor to The Invisible.
Glasgow is to play host to the annual Europe Jazz Network conference on 24-26 September.
Tonight is the culmination of the year-long Kind of Blue celebrations following on from last month’s anniversary of the first release of the album in the US 50 years ago.
While the streets of Camden outside were awash with what at times seemed like biblical rain, a veritable deluge of jazz, fittingly, was announced inside the Forge on Delancey Street last night as the complete line-up for this year’s London Jazz Festival, which runs from 13-22 November, was unveiled.
As close to a household name on the international jazz circuit as it comes, Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko is set for a major change of direction with the release next month of a new album featuring a brand new Nordic band, making its London Jazz Festival debut as part of a major tour.
NYJO is set for major change following demands made by its main funder the Arts Council of England for the youth orchestra to transform its way of working.
Polar Bear has signed to the Leeds-based Leaf label and is to release a new album titled Peepers early next year to follow up their self-titled album released on Coventry-based Tin Angel which came out in 2008.