Mentoring Scheme For Scottish Jazz Musicians Launched
- Tuesday, August 4, 2009
A new project which will further develop the professional careers of five emerging Scottish jazz musicians has been announced.
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Cleveland Watkiss Joins Julian Joseph For First Night Of Brit-Jazz Festival At Ronnie’s
- Monday, August 3, 2009
The Ronnie Scott’s Brit-Jazz Festival opened with a sold out double bill at the weekend, the first of the 15-day festival that continues until 15 August featuring many of the leading lights and some of the freshest talent on the burgeoning UK jazz scene.
Mercury Prize Nominees Line Up For Free South Bank Shows
- Friday, July 31, 2009
Just two weeks after this year’s Mercury Music Prize shortlist was revealed enterprising promoters Trouble Tune have pulled together an evening of jazz, hip-hop, dance music, and experimental electronica, featuring no less than three past and present nominees.
Crystal Silence Poised For Box Set Release
- Thursday, July 30, 2009
ECM is to issue a box set of Gary Burton and Chick Corea’s Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings, 1972-79 a four-CD set on 7 September.
Portico Quartet To Release Isla
- Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Portico Quartet, the hang and saxophone-led former buskers who borrowed their name from the stone structure they took refuge under to play after a sudden downpour of rain during a festival performance in Italy, are set to release the follow-up to their critically acclaimed bestseller 2007 Knee Deep In The North Sea album.
Lydian Chromatic Concept Theorist and Composer George Russell Dies
- Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The composer George Russell, best known for his 1953 music theory The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization died yesterday aged 86.
Huw Warren Signs To Basho And Gears Up For Release Of Hermeto Pascoal-Themed Album
- Monday, July 27, 2009
Huw Warren is to release a new album entitled Hermeto + in October, his first for the Basho Records label.
Keith Jarrett Trio Is Up For It At The Royal Festival Hall
- Sunday, July 26, 2009
After more than a quarter of a century together the Keith Jarrett Trio has that certain air of invincibility about it, with Jarrett the matador, the beaming Gary Peacock and intense Jack DeJohnette the picadors.
The Barbican and Jazz At Lincoln Center To Establish East London Creative Jazz Orchestra
- Friday, July 24, 2009
A new teenage East London Creative Jazz Orchestra is to be launched to perform jazz repertory work with material written by the participating musicians and composers, the Barbican will announce tonight in partnership with New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center, an international associate of the city of London arts complex.
Jan Garbarek To Release New Double Live Album Dresden
- Thursday, July 23, 2009
The latest version of the Jan Garbarek Group releases its debut album Dresden in September which will be Garbarek’s first-ever live album issued under his own name.