This weekend sees bassist/educator Gary Crosby’s Nu Civilisation Orchestra (pictured left) join forces with the BBC Concert Orchestra for a barnstorming take on Duke Ellington’s 'Harlem (A Tone Parallel To Harlem)', in a joint concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London’s Southbank Centre, on Sunday 24 March at 7.
Renowned virtuoso pianist Robert Mitchell (pictured), best known for his award-winning Trio and long running group Panacea, launches his Leftitude piano festival this week over two nights at The Forge, London.
The nominations for this year’s Parliamentary Jazz Awards have been announced, the winners of which will be announced in an awards ceremony on 8 May at the House of Commons Terrace Pavilion.
The Institute Francais, at 17 Queensberry Place, London is staging a series of concerts under the banner It’s All About The Piano! between 22-24 March, with a total of 23 recitals, films and comedy performances.
Pianist and composer Julian Joseph (pictured left) talks about his jazz opera Shadowball, which draws on the stories of black basketball players from the 1930s and 40s, with the opera’s librettist Mike Phillips in a discussion with images and music at the Purcell Room on Saturday 23 March from 3.
Folk singer June Tabor is set to follow the widespread critical acclaim she received for her work with the Oysterband on last year’s Ragged Kingdom – jointly winning the BBC Folk Award for Album of the Year 2012 – by teaming up with ECM-signed saxophonist Iain Ballamy and highly respected Welsh pianist Huw Warren in the form of a new trio, Quercus.
Last December sample-busting cult producer DJ Shadow was told to curtail his latest, boundary pushing set at the Mansion Nightclub, Miami, for being “too future.
A rather blatant heads-up for new London-based sextet, J-Sonics, who bring their own gritty mix of Brazilian jazz and urban funk grooves to the Hideaway in Streatham, South London on Thursday 14 March at 8pm.
With no recent record to plug, just a night devoted to playing standards and some hand-picked 'hits' from his vast past catalogue, guitar-star Scofield and his super-sidemen – Larry Goldings on B3 Hammond and drummer Greg Hutchinson – threw their all into a show centrally tuned to the delivery of hard swing, lyrical balladry and unrivalled jazz-funk showmanship.
Several Israeli musicians have made a significant impact on American jazz in the last two decades.
