Jazz FM, the national DAB jazz radio station, has announced the Jazz FM Awards, which will take place in central London on the evening of 31 January 2013.
Progressive and pro-active London-based Loop Collective is back with a barnstorming rhythm-heavy festival later this month with a two-day event running 28-29 September in and around the Forge in Camden and Vortex in Dalston.
Opened on the coincidental date of 7/7/07 the Seven Arts venue in Chapel Allerton, Leeds was started by three local women Penny Sanders, Pat Hunter and Anne Skevington who wanted to create a successful community arts centre and jazz venue.
In one of the most boundary breaking jazz-rock collaborations of recent times former Led Zeppelin bass hero John Paul Jones and cult Norwegian industrial-ambient-noise group Supersilent (all pictured left) join forces for a major UK tour this November.
Translated as ‘Jazz in August’, the Lisbon-based festival’s 29th edition presented a cross-generational mix of youthful deviants and international heavyweights from the jazz and improv leftfield.
The application period for the successful Made in the UK Brit-Jazz strand at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF), which was set up in 2008 to present the UK’s vibrant jazz scene abroad, is now open.
John McLaughlin celebrates his 70th birthday year with a bang by releasing his most explosive new album since the early days of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and playing a major concert at the Barbican during the London Jazz Festival.
Supergroup is a term bandied around all too readily but it is not out of place here.
Is there no end to the Norwegian appetite for live music? For a country of five million people, 1.
One of the last of the original hipsters and a icon of old school values that embraced the concept of stentorian individual expression (somewhat devalued in today’s overcrowded era of internet-fed egalitarianism), tenor saxophonist Earl Lavon Freeman left us early last Sunday morning, 12 August for the cosmic jam session beyond the clouds.
