Revered bassist Dave Holland is set to make a dramatic return to the fray with a fired-up new quartet and album both under the name Prism, featuring a hard-hitting combination of keyboardist Craig Taborn, guitarist Kevin Eubanks and drummer Eric Harland (all pictured left).
Once hailed as ‘the best-kept secret in British jazz’, Liane Carroll is one of this country’s finest jazz singers, but her way of maintaining such lofty standards is as precariously unpredictable as it is utterly compelling.
The semi-finalists have just been announced for the Young Scottish Jazz Musician 2013, the annual competition organised by the Scottish Jazz Federation.
“Jack has CDs.
Brixton-based singer/pianist Anoushka Lucas (pictured left) has been announced as the winner of the Love Supreme Jazz Festival Discovery competition for unsigned artists.
The renowned Brazilian jazz-funk trio, Azymuth (pictured left), are to play Room One at Fabric, the famed Farringdon club, in conjunction with FabricLive and Gilles Peterson, who will be providing a DJ set after their performance.
In his typically unassuming manner, Kyle Eastwood took to the stage ahead of time, warmly greeted the sellout crowd and promptly proclaimed Ronnie Scott’s “the greatest jazz club in the world.
Thursday saw the start of the four night 'Thump' drum festival at Soho's Pizza Express Jazz Club, curated by Bence Bolygo and Andrew Chapman of Bolygo Music Productions, whose express intent was to represent 'the drum', and why not.
Trumpeter and educator Gemma Buckenham (pictured left) has been appointed as the inaugural music director of the NYJO Jazz Ensemble, part of the new NYJO Academy, which heads up all of the educational activities of the Orchestra for younger musicians.
Acclaimed London-based American drummer Jeff Williams launches his latest album, The Listener, (released today on the Whirlwind Recordings label), at the Vortex jazz club in Dalston, on Tuesday 4 June.
