Polish Jazz Festival
- Friday, May 27, 2005
The first London Polish Jazz Festival takes this place from 20-24 July at the Polish Social and Cultural Association building (POSK) in west London.
The first London Polish Jazz Festival takes this place from 20-24 July at the Polish Social and Cultural Association building (POSK) in west London.
London jazz club the Vortex has reopened after its closure last year following a steep hike in rent at its old premises in Stoke Newington.
The biggest jazz festival in the world, the North Sea Jazz Festival at the Hague in Holland, takes places on 8-10 July, its last before moving to Rotterdam next year.
His performance at the recent Cheltenham Jazz Festival was one of the festival's highlights.
More nominations for the BBC Jazz Awards to be presented in July have just been announced.
Berry Gordy would have been proud. Playing to a jam packed Friday night audience Jazz Jamaica brought its own brand of Motor City madness to the tenth Cheltenham Jazz Festival with a turbo-charged performance of Motown Unloaded, their freshly minted skank through some of the legendary soul label's greatest sides.
UK tenor and soprano saxophonist Denys Baptiste performed with Gary Crosby and Nu Troop before releasing his debut album in 1999, Be Where You Are, which was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize.
Bob Sinicrope runs the Jazz Programme at Milton Academy, near Boston, Massachusetts.
Dave is head of music at Richmond Adult Community College; he teaches bass and leads jazz workshops in the Saturday Jazz School.
Terry studied music at the University of Sussex and gained a year’s scholarship to study jazz at the Eastman School of Music, New York.