Maverick Norwegian percussionist Terje Isungset (pictured left) returns to the UK between 29 November and 2 December with his Ice Music project; a series of live performances played exclusively on instruments created from ice.
Last week Jazzwise announced the results of its annual writers poll with Courtney Pine winning the prestigious No.
The Will Michael Jazz Education Awards will be held tonight at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) to recognise those committed to promoting outstanding jazz education.
Of all the excessively talented sidemen the late great Weather Report keyboardist/composer Joe Zawinul employed in his globetrotting Syndicate band, French-Ivorian drummer Paco Séry was among the most memorably explosive: a fireworks display on a drum stool.
If the four costume changes made by Macy Gray gave this gig a pop sensibility, which is largely absent in the jazz world, then it was not accompanied by any shedding of musical ambition.
The Hideaway club in Streatham, south-west London rounds out the year in vibrant style with a special Courtney Pine weekend in the pre-Xmas run-up, a return show by club favourites Jazz Jamaica, and a second appearance by Glasgow horn heroes Brass Jaw.
Leading British saxophonist Courtney Pine (pictured left), has won Jazzwise magazine’s Album Of The Year for his triumphant ska, soca and reggae-fuelled record, House Of Legends.
For the ‘beats’ generation of 1980s hip-hop rather than the beat generation of 1950s bebop, a new sound is generally not borne of acoustic instruments.
Jazz FM, the national DAB radio broadcaster, has announced it will present a major new summer jazz festival in July, its second big initiative for 2013 following the launch of the Jazz FM Awards that take place in January.
Although billed as the AAO’s gig, the stage belongs as much to the Young Wagilak Group, a trio of Aboriginal musicians (Benjamin, Daniel and Roy Wilfred), whose first two members sing and third plays yiddaki (dijiredu).
