The guitar world is mourning the loss of one of its founding fathers with the passing of guitar design innovator and multi-track recording pioneer Les Paul who died on 13 August aged 94.
Rashied Ali, the revolutionary drummer most associated with John Coltrane’s late period and in particularly the important duo album Interstellar Space, died yesterday aged 74, it has been announced.
The Live Box tour kicks off next month with performances from Robert Mitchell, Femi Temowo and Anthony Joseph.
The Canary Wharf Jazz Festival opens tomorrow with Martha Lewis’ Café Aman.
New feature film An Education set for release in the cinemas at the end of October features a jazz-inflected score by the TV and film composer Paul Englishby, best known for arranging the music for Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and writing the music for Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day.
London’s F-IRE Collective has programmed a significant strand of next month’s Thames festival organised by the mayor of London with a line-up set to feature Nick Ramm’s quirky circus-influenced band, Clown Revisited, prog-jazz trio Troyka and Polar Bear drummer Seb Rochford’s alternative Henry Cow-influenced band, Fulborn Teversham.
Pianist Zoe Rahman headlined last night in the continuing Brit-jazz Fest at Ronnie Scott’s club in Soho which continues tonight with the Filthy Six and The Sunburst Band playing to two houses.
Festé next month in Derby is to open on Friday 4 September with pianist John Bailey’s Septet which will première Bailey’s new commission The Joseph Wright Suite, composed to celebrate the 275th birthday of the 18th century landscape and portrait painter, Joseph Wright.
To coincide with the Brit Jazz Fest at Ronnie Scott’s this week and next Jazzwisemagazine.
The Brecon Jazz Festival opens this coming Friday evening with the Art Themen, Julian Marc Stringle and Bruce Adams Sextet and will continue over the weekend with headlining slots from Courtney Pine, Dennis Rollins and Anouar Brahem.
