The Budvar Cheltenham Jazz Festival comes to a conclusion tonight with the Nigel Kennedy quintet on the main stage of the Town Hall, bringing to a close the festival which began last Tuesday.
Rising star of the ECM label, trumpeter Mathias Eick played material from his latest album, The Door to an expectant Vortex audience in London earlier this week.
Fifty years ago in August Kind of Blue was first released and to mark the anniversary a new book, The Blue Moment subtitled Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music written by The Guardian’s chief sports writer and former Melody Maker editor Richard Williams, is to be published by Faber and Faber.
The latest stage of Tim Garland’s tour of the UK with his Lighthouse Trio takes place this weekend at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall.
Carlos Lopez-Real releases his debut album Mandorla for the F-IRE label on 4 May.
Having won a number of emerging talent awards and clearly a musician on the up, drummer John Randall brought material from his quintet’s debut album, Insomnia to the Vortex at the weekend.
The main line-up for Meltdown, curated by Ornette Coleman, at London’s Southbank Centre in June is: Philly hip hop freestylers The Roots (13 June, Royal Festival Hall); saxophonist David Murray plus the Gwo-Ka Masters from Guadeloupe and former Prime Time bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma (13 June, Queen Elizabeth Hall); for the first time in the UK, the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band plus Sean Lennon and Cornelius (14 June, RFH); Senegalese singer/guitarist Baaba Maal (15 June, RFH); alt rockers Yo La...
It’s now less than a week until this year’s Budvar Cheltenham Jazz Festival, which runs from Tuesday 28 April until Monday 4 May and is sponsored by Jazzwise.
Scottish-based saxophonist and composer Julian Argüelles has confirmed a series of dates for a collaborative tour with internationally renowned jazz guitarist, John Abercrombie.
As a member of the second great Miles Davis quintet in the 1960s, Ron Carter has long since earned his place in jazz history.