Piano phenomenon Gwilym Simcock – fêted by both the jazz and classical world and the first jazz musician to become a BBC New Generations artist – is to release his new double album Blues Vignette on Basho Records in November.
A sell-out, or should that be a shell-out, return to London last night threatened to be an ignominious flop for Chicago group Tortoise at the recently reopened Garage in Islington.
Vibes virtuoso Gary Burton is set to play with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra next month performing the music of Wayne Shorter.
A new rap opera which examines the dilemmas and aspirations of urban hip hop is to tour in the autumn with music by alto saxophonist jazz musician and MC Soweto Kinch.
Jackie Tracey, who died on Friday 14 August, had celebrated her 80th birthday just four months earlier at London’s 606 Club.
Brighton Jazz Club has a strong gig sheet lined up from early August to mid October including Claire Martin, Gilad Atzmon’s Real Jazz Qt and Zoe Rahman.
Extraordinary Cuban violinist Omar Puente (pictured left) is a fighter.
Renowned London-based Cuban conga player Roberto Pla is set to bring his storming latin jazz band to the Edinburgh fringe for a series of gigs in Edinburgh’s ‘El Barrio’ Latin Quarter.
Jazz fans in the USA woke up 50 years ago today, 17 August, to the release of an album that still exerts a massive impact and influence on the current generation as it did back then.
Ahead of the final night of the Brit-jazz Festival at Ronnie Scott’s Courtney Pine earlier today finished a high octane second house set with his Transition In Tradition band.
