Master saxophonist Charles Lloyd (pictured left), who turns 75 in March, releases a highly anticipated duo album on ECM today, entitled Hagar’s Song, with his long time pianist Jason Moran, followed by a retrospective 5CD box set later in March as part of ECM’s Old & New Masters Series.
The organisers behind Jazz FM’s Love Supreme Jazz Festival, which runs from 5-7 July at Glynde Place in East Sussex, have just announced that iconic singer Bryan Ferry (pictured left) and his Orchestra will make an exclusive UK debut appearance at the festival, headlining the bill on Saturday 6 July.
An hour before the 82 year-old pianist, hailed as ‘the master’ in the compère’s introduction, graced the Barbican stage on Friday, a lower profile gig took place just down the road at the South Bank.
Is there such a thing as a spoof piano trio? Well I guess there is but in irony-loving jazz circles, even in Dalston, [em] would not qualify.
Van Morrison and Gregory Porter are the latest big names to be confirmed for this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival, which runs from 1-6 May, with Morrison (pictured left) returning for the first time since his appearance in 2008.
The 2013 Grammy Awards, held on 10 February, saw pianist Robert Glasper (pictured left) become the second jazz artist of recent times to cause an upset outside of their allotted category, winning Best R&B Album for his vocal-led set Black Radio, beating fellow nominees R.
More names have just been confirmed for the Jazz FM Love Supreme Jazz Festival, to be held at Glynde Place, East Sussex from 5-7 July, and now include vocal sensation Gregory Porter (pictured left), top UK saxophonist Courtney Pine and the increasingly electronica-edged Portico Quartet.
It’s been reported that legendary trumpeter Donald Byrd, probably best known in the States for his late-1950s and early-1960s Blue Note groups with Pepper Adams and Duke Pearson as well as his later jazz-funk albums with brothers Larry and Alphonso Mizell, died on Monday aged 80.
Prolific US pianist Brad Mehldau follows up a busy 2012, which saw him release two installments from his renowned Trio in the shape of Ode and Where Do You Start and perform a headline spot at the LJF in November, with a return to the UK for two sets of contrasting concert dates.
Ahmad Jamal brought the inaugural Jazz FM Awards to an exultant close last night at the grade one listed former church, One Marylebone, in central London with a brief set featuring ‘Blue Moon’, on which he was joined by singer Jamie Cullum, who added his distinctive vocals to the standard.
