London-based music organisation Tomorrow’s Warriors, which mentors a new generation of young jazz musicians, presents a major day of music this Friday, 24 July.
Ornette Coleman influenced post-punk jazz group Led Bib led by US-born drummer Mark Holub have been nominated for the Mercury Prize just announced today for their Cuneiform records album Sensible Shoes.
Who knows what the face of jazz guitar is going to be in the future but if anyone has a clue to its direction then it’s Kurt Rosenwinkel.
One of the UK’s leading tenor and soprano saxophonists, Andy Sheppard, is to play a one off special solo concert at Lanercost Priory.
Good news for those who missed out first time comes the announcement that more tickets have been made available for the Keith Jarrett Trio’s forthcoming concert at the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 25 July.
Roy Hargrove’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2008 quintet album Earfood is set for release by Emarcy early next month.
The Harrogate International Festival is by now well under way and stretches through until 24 July.
Singer Liane Carroll heads to the Scarborough Jazz Festival, held at the Spa in the Yorkshire seaside town between 18 and 20 September.
The Supersonic Festival at Birmingham venue the Custard Factory is set to host Bobby Previte’s Dialed In on Saturday 25 July.
The full line-up for next month’s Brecon Jazz Festival is now confirmed.