Saxophonist Branford Marsalis is one of the few leading jazz musicians to have held a position as an A&R for a major record company, a position he held at Columbia in the late 1990s.
The fifth BBC Jazz Awards were presented at the Mermaid Theatre in London last Saturday.
You may not need green fingers but the Museum of Garden History is the place to be next month for a little jazz and horticulture when the museum, based in the restored church of London's St Mary-at Lambeth, hosts seven jazz nights over the period of 1-10 September.
Cult Norwegian freewheeling jazztronica group Jaga Jazzist are on tour next month.
Bassist Geoff Gascoyne has seen his career transform itself over the last few years after he became a member of Jamie Cullum's trio, playing on two hit albums and touring the world with Cullum.
FeaturesIn This Month's Issue-----------------------------------------Ornette Coleman - Oceans Of SoundAcoustic Ladyland - Brave New WorldStan Tracey - Standard TimeReviews - Jazz and BeyondFrom the UK's biggest review section-----------------------------------------
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.
Pianist Katia Labeque tours with her band (Dave Maric, keyboards and Marque Gilmore, drums) and special guests guitarist Fred Frith and violinist Viktoria Mullova this week.
Sample Features From This Month's Issue-----------------------------------------Guy Barker - Dark End of the Street - Trumpeter Guy Barker has just released his most ambitious album to date, a 2-CD set, inspired by Mozart. Titled The Amadeus Project it grew out of two separate commissions, one instrumental, the other with an actor narrating. Mozart’s most mysterious opera, die Zauberflöte, has in the process become ‘dZf’, with a Chandler-esque noir and the cool of the night about it. Stuart...
Sample Features From This Month's Issue-----------------------------------------McCoy Tyner - Reaching Fourth A walking spirit, a talking spirit, to adapt the title of the opening track on new album Quartet, McCoy Tyner, the only surviving member of the great John Coltrane Quartet, a legend in jazz since the 1960s, who has contributed to the art and practice of jazz music in an incalculable way. Blessed with one of the most distinctive, original, widely copied and most rhythmical piano sounds in...
