Jazz magazines from across Europe have come together under the banner Europe Jazz Media to work on common objectives in encouraging and strengthening interest in jazz and spreading awareness of the development and diversity of the music.
Claude Nobs, the legendary founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, has died aged 76 after several weeks in a coma following a skiing accident during the Christmas holidays.
It has just been confirmed that iconic pianist Keith Jarrett is to perform a rare solo concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 25 February 2013.
This year’s Parliamentary Jazz Awards will take place on 8 May at the House of Commons Terrace Pavilion and voting is now open online for the public to cast their choices across the designated categories.
Renowned not just for its instantly recognisable sound aesthetic but for its cover art’s use of photography, modern art and graphic design, iconic German label ECM has recently opened a wide ranging art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst, in Munich.
The full programme for this year’s Gateshead International Jazz Festival, which runs from Friday 5 to 7 April 2013 at The Sage, Gateshead, has been confirmed with the addition of saxophonist/rapper Soweto Kinch’s (pictured left) band and gypsy jazz guitar giant Bireli Lagrene and his quartet.
London’s Vortex jazz club has announced the line-up for iconic UK saxophonist Evan Parker’s third annual Might I Suggest mini-festival, which runs between 29 January and 2 February 2013.
Compiled from selections submitted by the top jazz magazines across Europe, Jazzwise brings you the latest Europe Jazz Media Chart to refresh your ears and spike the senses during this festive period.
Saxophonist Pete Wareham is back with a spontaneously formed, unnamed trio who take a radical approach to jazz standards, and has reignited the former Acoustic Ladyland front-man’s love of the art of the trio Pete Wareham is best known for his jazz-punk outfit Acoustic Ladyland, now sadly disbanded, but in among a plethora of upcoming projects for 2013 one of his new bands looks back to a more traditional aesthetic.
The Love Supreme Jazz Festival, presented by Jazz FM and held at Glynde Place, East Sussex from 5-7 July next year, have announced the recently Grammy–nominated Robert Glasper Experiment (pictured left), rising stars, vocalist Andreya Triana and US jam band Snarky Puppy, are to join the increasingly stellar bill of this inaugural green-field event.
