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UK tour for Tord Gustavsen Trio

The trio format is one of the most popular and flexible in jazz history and in recent years has re-entered the spotlight with the success of groups such as EST and The Bad Plus.

London Jazz Festival

With this year's London Jazz Festival just around the corner the organisers have confirmed several surprise big names in addition to the line-up announced in Jazzwise last month.

Jazz and literature

Next month's Cheltenham Literature Festival has an interesting jazz evening on 12 October.

The Write Way Up

The new writers' initiative, The Write Stuff, returns to the London Jazz Festival for its third year running following the success of the past two courses.

JAZZWISE APRIL 2005

1 Nguyên Lê Homescape ACT2 Guy Barker Holly J Miles Music3 Charles Lloyd Sangam ECM4 Amancio D’Silva Konkan Dance Vocalion5 Tony Kofi Future Passed Specific advance copy

Mercury Prize deadline

Always the bridesmaid and never the bride at the Mercury Prize, the most credible UK music award, independent jazz record labels have nonetheless seen success in having their acts appearing on the short list for the prize over the years.

JAZZWISE MARCH 2006

1 Sun Ra The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra Lonehill2 Renaud Garcia-Fons Arcoluz Enja3 Ian Shaw Drawn To All Things Linn records advance4 Virone/Filippini/Liberti/Barbieri Quadrecroma DDE Records5 Donald Fagen Morph The Cat Warner/Reprise

Peter Whittingham Jazz Award

Mark Holub and his ensemble, Led Bib, are this year's winners of the Peter Whittingham Jazz Award.

Bill Frisell goes digital

Bill Frisell polled high in the Jazzwise Albums Of The Year critics' vote for his live album East/West.

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