Australian improvising trio The Necks continue their latest tour this week, the larger venues indicating their growing popularity which began in clubs where they built a strong word-of-mouth following.
Hot on the heels of its recent Rajar radio listening figures, which clocked-up a respectable 408,000 listeners per week, Jazz FM has announced that the popular jazz DJ Helen Mayhew will return to the DAB station from 1 July.
This year’s BBC Proms running from 17 July-12 September feature pianist Stan Tracey performing big band suite 'Genesis' in a late-night prom on Saturday 18 July.
Joe Lovano, as he told the first house audience at the weekend, on the warmest Saturday of the year in London so far, has been to Ronnie Scott’s many times.
Next month on 22 June the Pizza Express Jazz Club on Dean Street in London’s Soho will host a special £10 night featuring four different projects highlighting some of the most talked-about new musicians and bands on the London jazz scene.
Jazzwise writer Kevin Le Gendre won a parliamentary shield award for journalist of the year at last night’s Parliamentary Jazz Awards held in the Terrace Pavilion of the House of Commons.
The Brecon Jazz Festival in Wales returns from 6-9 August, with a smaller scale festival featuring 25 concerts in anticipation of a fuller event next year under the auspices of the Hay festival.
Jazzwise can exclusively reveal that the Keith Jarrett Trio is confirmed to perform a rare UK date at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Saturday 25 July.
New shows featuring Mike Patton, Marc Ribot, James Blood Ulmer, Evan Parker, Kieron Hebden and Steve Reid have been announced by the South Bank Centre for Ornette Coleman’s Meltdown next month.
The Bath International Music Festival gets underway this Friday, continuing until 6 June and while the main focus is classical music, the festival under pianist Joanna MacGregor’s artistic direction, has built on its strong jazz history which in the 1990s established a reputation for introducing jazz musicians and bands from Italy, France and all over Europe.