Whirlwind Recordings presents a three-day festival featuring the Mike Gibbs Ensemble and the Aruán Ortiz & Michael Janisch Quintet, with Greg Osby (pictured) guesting, at Kings Place, London, on 10-12 October.
The claim that a slow song is a soloist’s greatest challenge is a cliché with more than a grain of truth.
Tenor saxophonist, bandleader and improviser Tobias Delius is touring the UK in September.
Clarinetist and bandleader Arun Ghosh (pictured) ignites his potent Indo-jazz sound with a new album, A South Asian Suite, released on 30 September with UK tour dates to follow.
For two weeks from 24 July 2013, a fine crop of jazz students from all five continents gathered to immerse themselves in the innovative education program that is Siena Jazz Foundation’s summer workshops.
A giant 12 square metre photographic hoarding depicting one of Val Wilmer’s iconic Ronnie Scott images is currently covering the entire front façade of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club on Frith Street in London’s Soho while the building is undergoing redecoration.
This year’s Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival is set to return to the Scottish island for the 15th year from 13-15 September.
The Write Stuff new writers initiative is back for its 11th year in November with a new series of workshops and mentoring sessions held during the EFG London Jazz Festival that runs from 15-24 November.
From 5 September for 10 days the town of Ruvo in the Puglia region in Italy’s south is filled with the sounds of banda, or brass band – the mother of all big bands! In Italy, banda describes a wind ensemble or orchestra – a quite different type of big band – typically featuring 50 to 60 musicians with an arsenal that usually includes four to six tubas, five or more French horns, a swarm of trumpets, trombones and clarinets, plus bassoons, oboes and flutes – all the important reed and brass...
Legendary jazz pianist, writer and broadcaster Marian McPartland (OBE) has died, aged 95 at her home in Port Washington, Long Island, New York.
