Big Band Drum Legend Louis Bellson Dies
- Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Charismatic big band drum veteran and band leader Louis Bellson has died in Los Angeles on Saturday 14 February aged 84.
Other
TrioVD Storm The Vortex
- Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Shocked and awed, the audience at London’s Vortex Jazz Club were thrilled by a blitzkrieg of expression from the LIMA Collective’s trioVD as they played their first headline London gig last night.
LOOP Festival Showcases New Jazz Stars
- Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The LOOP collective’s first full weekend festival, to celebrate their first four years of making music, kicked into high gear on Friday night with a quartet of bands that displayed a huge variety of styles emerging from this group’s restless imagination. Trumpeter Robbie Robson’s Dog Soup perfectly updated Miles’ Bitches Brew-style freeform electro funk with subtle loops and washes of improv that suddenly switched into gnashing prog-jazz riffs. Having set the bar high with such lavish sonic...
Joshua Redman, Jazz Warriors and Guy Barker for Gateshead
- Thursday, February 12, 2009
Five years old this year, the Gateshead Jazz Festival has become one of the most important jazz festivals in the UK.
All the world's a stage for Abram Wilson
- Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Later this year New Orleans trumpeter Abram Wilson, now living in London, will release his latest quartet album for Dune records.
Lea DeLaria hits the road
- Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The irrepressible Lea DeLaria – who describes herself as “a chick singer with balls” – hits the road in some style next month in support of her New York-recorded album Live Smoke Sessions.
Cassandra Wilson, Chick Corea and Terence Blanchard win at the Grammys
- Monday, February 9, 2009
Lady luck deserted UK Grammy hopefuls Stacey Kent and Norma Winstone last night in the jazz vocals category as Cassandra Wilson picked up vocal album of the year for her Blue Note album, Loverly.
Kenny Wheeler and Norma Winstone for Leeds
- Friday, February 6, 2009
The Venue at Leeds College of Music has announced its spring programme with a strong jazz strand included in the mix.
Bath books Branford Marsalis, Dave Holland and Empirical
- Thursday, February 5, 2009
The Bath Music Festival has pulled out all the stops for its jazz programming this year, adding high profile Americans to the usual rich mix of European and UK bands.
Brecon Jazz Festival Takes Time Out
- Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Brecon Jazz Festival will not take place this year but hopes to return next year, according to the Arts Council of Wales, which helps fund the annual festival and is deciding which of the rival bids to take over the festival it will back.