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Fly debuts for ECM

ECM has departed from its usual Nordic and European-rooted artist-signing policy with the news that the Munich label has signed Fly, the progressive trio of saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard.

Brad Mehldau gets Wigmore Hall residency off to a sold out start

Pianist Brad Mehldau, the self-styled Werther of the jazz piano world, with an ever-increasing reputation for his rock and classically-inspired jazz piano concerts, is to get his curatorship of the Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Series for 2009 and 2010 off to a great start, with a solo concert on 9 April that is already sold out.

New biography explores Joni Mitchell’s Blue period

Five years ago writer Michelle Mercer produced a book which, at the time, seemed like mission impossible: not only writing a book on Wayne Shorter but making it into the most readable jazz biography since Alyn Shipton’s book on Dizzy Gillespie, Groovin’ High, back in 1999.

Ornette Coleman To Curate Meltdown

Friday night was a treat for jazz nostalgics as a BBC4 film charted the annus mirabilis that was 1959 when Kind of Blue, Take Five, Mingus Ah Um and, above all, Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz To Come were released.

Camden’s Con Cellar Bar Lines Up Debut Festival

Trumpeter Richard Turner has been running a successful jazz night at Camden’s Constitution Pub, or rather in its below stairs Con Cellar Bar since October 2007, in which time the venue has played host to some of NYC’s finest including Mark Turner, Jeff Ballard, Larry Grenadier and Will Vinson.

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