Bassist and composer Kyle Eastwood (pictured) returns with a new album, The View From Here on Jazz Village, which was released 25 March, as well as a UK tour that starts tomorrow and includes a week’s residency at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club 3-8 June.
The major European jazz trade show and new artist showcase, Jazzahead!, gets under way from Thursday 25 April until Sunday 28 April in the Exhibition and Congress Centre in Bremen, Germany.
The Royal Academy of Music exhibition devoted to Kenny Wheeler was launched on April 23.
Organisers of the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, which takes place between 5-7 July at Glynde Place, near Lewes in Sussex, are offering the chance for upcoming jazz artists to win a place on the festival bill alongside the likes of Bryan Ferry, Robert Glasper and Esperanza Spalding.
For the most part, western pop convention states that a singer accompanies him or herself on guitar.
Israeli bassist, composer and singer Avishai Cohen is to perform his biggest solo UK gig to date when he premieres his ambitious With Strings group (pictured left) at London’s Barbican Hall on 7 May.
This year’s BBC Proms will see revered British pianist/composer Django Bates perform A Celebration of Charlie Parker on 28 August, (Prom 62 10.
It’s a window onto a lost world.
Sax legends Wayne Shorter (pictured left) and Sonny Rollins, South African trumpet icon Hugh Masekela, guitar guru John McLaughlin’s Remember Shakti, Norwegian bass titan Arild Andersen and Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana’s mesmerising jazztronica project, Mehliana, are among the first tranche of names confirmed for the 2013 London Jazz Festival under its new headline sponsor agreement with EFG.
Like a rare planetary alignment equally rare is finding two of the UK's finely quilled jazz critics nolo contendere at the Spice Of Life, Soho and possibly the perfect opportunity for those stained by the ink of Jack Massarik (Evening Standard) and Mike Hobart (Financial Times) to reap revenge.
