One of the most talked about bands on London’s leftfield jazz scene since their formation two years ago, Sons Of Kemet release their debut album, Burn, on the Naim Jazz label on 9 September.
Musicians, industry professionals and politicians packed in to the Terrace Pavilion at the Houses of Parliament for the announcement of the winners of the 2013 Parliamentary Jazz Awards, hosted this year by popular former BBC news reader, and ardent jazz fan, Moira Stuart.
If last year's bold move to a new, tented village locale had ended in a torrential downpour, then this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival will be remembered as the one when the sun shone and it got its mojo back.
The Impulse! label tape vaults are about to deliver a rare bundle of joy with the news that the original three-track masters for John Coltrane’s Sun Ship album have recently been discovered and will be released for the first time in full unedited form as The Complete Sun Ship Session.
The Cheltenham Jazz Festival, which kicked off this week with headline performances from Dionne Warwick and Madeleine Peyroux on Wednesday and Thursday nights continues today with an eclectic programme that includes rising soul-pop star Laura Mvula (Jazz Arena, 6.
Tucked under the arches of one of the busiest railway bridges in London, the Charing Cross Theatre (formerly The Players Theatre) is the ideal venue for a one-woman show about Billie Holiday.
Shaping up to be one of the biggest and brightest new jazz festivals of recent years the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, which is presented by Jazz FM and runs from 5-7 July at Glynde Place, near Lewes in Sussex, has confirmed top US trumpeter Terence Blanchard (pictured left), blues guitar star Eric Bibb and 64 year-old soul sensation Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires are all set to appear.
The second annual International Jazz Day was celebrated in serious style in the intimate surroundings of the south London SGI-UK International Buddhist Centre in Brixton with a line up of leading UK and US jazz musicians.
Greetings groovers you’ve woken up to UNESCO International Jazz Day – so make it happen where you are – and don’t forget the Ode To The Human Spirit gig tonight at the SGI-UK South London National Centre, Brixton with a multitude of UK jazz stars – including singers Lianne Carroll and Randolph Matthews, trumpeters Noel Langley, Yazz Ahmed and Sean Corby, saxophonists Julian Siegel, Martin Speake, Tony Kofi and Jason Yarde among many, many others – all lining up to mark the occasion.
The extraordinary new spiritual soundscapes of fast rising New York drummer Jaimeo Brown and the bombastic brilliance of Manchester’s Beats & Pieces Big Band (pictured below), were among the most talked about performances that helped make the 2013 Jazzahead! the most successful event yet in its eight year history.
