When Officium was first released in 1994 few could have contemplated the success of the album that Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble were to experience.
Jazzwise continues to take jazz media into the 21st century with our high quality Digital Edition (available through Exact Editions) now becoming available to download on Apple’s hugely popular iPhone or iTouch devices.
Ronnie Scott’s jazz club which will be 50 years old later this year has announced details of a special 15-day Britjazz Festival at the club.
Best known as once being home to Chris Evans’ TFI Friday show and The Old Grey Whistle Test, the Hammersmith-located Riverside Studios is now reinventing itself as a multi-functional 400-seater arts and music venue.
Jazz pianist and singer Jamie Cullum makes his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York tomorrow night, 20 June.
Femi Kuti and his group the Positive Force bring their highly energetic blend of jazz, funk and Afro-beat to Brass: the Durham International Festival next month, sharing the bill with the Chicago-based nine-piece horn group the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble on 13 July.
The innovative saxophonist and reeds player Charlie Mariano passed away yesterday aged 85 in the German city of Cologne.
Bassist Gary Crosby, who was awarded an OBE for services to music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours announced last week, is set to launch a new group Rhythmica in his role as artistic director of the Dune record label.
Zed-U launched their new album Night Time On The Middle Passage at the Vortex in London at the end of last week.
Meltdown begins tomorrow on the South Bank in London but tonight Afrobeat drum legend Tony Allen performs in a special Front Room launch concert.