Fifty years in the business, trained in the school of hard knocks, Bettye LaVette (pictured left), appeared at the Jazz Café in the wake of the venue’s recently announced sale to a private equity firm.
As an international event with A-list headliners, the Jazztopad Festival in Wroclaw, Poland in November was an entirely appropriate setting for the final performance in the Take Five: Europe scheme.
Talented young trumpeter and composer Reuben Fowler (pictured left), has been announced as this year's winner of the prestigious Peter Whittingham Jazz Award.
Distinguished composer Mike Gibbs (pictured left), celebrates his 75th birthday with two special concerts at the Vortex this week on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 December.
Singer/songwriter Christine Tobin has won the Contemporary Jazz Composition prize in the 2012 British Composers Awards held by The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).
Had Dave Brubeck retired in 1960, the year his album Time Out – which included the hit single 'Take Five' – sold a million copies, his place in jazz history would have been assured.
Jazz In the Round and Jazzwise celebrate the festive season with a special Christmas Party at the Cockpit Theatre in Gateforth Street, London, NW8 this Sunday 9 December (see flyer below), featuring a special one-off all-star band and guest DJs.
Hard blowing alto/soprano sax firebrand Gilad Atzmon (pictured left) and his acclaimed Orient House Ensemble hit the road in January to play a series of UK dates through to March; including two nights on the Shetland Isles and a three-night stand at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in London, where he will officially launch his latest studio album, Songs Of The Metropolis.
Hugely dynamic UK alto saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch makes a dramatic return in early 2013 with a sprawling double-disc opus entitled The Legend Of Mike Smith, set for release on 18 February.
When I was first learning about jazz, ‘mid-West’ always meant Chicago but, in Ireland, it’s half-way up the west coast and dominated by the city of Limerick.
