It’s fitting that Wayne Shorter’s latest album, back on Blue Note after 43 years, is entitled Without a Net, because it aptly describes the nature of the live show; no net, no set performance.
This month's edition of the Jazzwise Podcast is now live – hosted by renowned DJ Chris Phillips from Jazz FM, and Jazzwise editor Jon Newey – they discuss the artist features on Jack DeJohnette, John Mclaughlin and Kurt Elling and play music from the November issue of Jazzwise that's on sale now.
Currently celebrating their 50th anniversary as a major music venue, the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, last Friday played host to BBC Radio 3’s Jazz Line-Up and Radio 2’s Big Band Special with a special concert featuring the BBC Big Band performing music associated with the many great big bands that have appeared there in the past half-century, ranging from Harry James, Duke Ellington and Woody Herman to Buddy Rich and Maynard Ferguson.
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.
Cult Chicago-born jazz-folk singer songwriter Terry Callier died in hospital surrounded by his family on Sunday 28 October, after suffering from a long illness, he was aged 67.
In 1973, when Bob Marley & The Wailers cut Catch A Fire, a landmark album not just in reggae but modern popular music, Jamaica as a sovereign state was just over a decade old.
Acclaimed London-based Mancunian clarinettist Arun Gosh has composed a contemporary-edged soundtrack to The Adventures of Prince Achmed a film directed by Lotte Reiniger in 1926, its the oldest surviving feature-length animation in cinema history.
With Benjamin Taubkin’s piano to the left, and Adriano Adewale’s drums to the right, the gap in the middle of the stage is conspicuous.
Following Jazzwise’s exclusive announcement in its June issue that iconic saxophonist Wayne Shorter (pictured left), had re-signed to Blue Note after a 43-year gap, the label have confirmed his new album, entitled Without A Net, will be released on 5 February 2013.
Legendary British jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine will be joining Jamie Cullum (pictured left), on his popular Radio 2 show to celebrate her 85th birthday with a show dedicated to her life in music.
