Cardiff-based events company Orchard has been selected by Arts Council Wales and Powys County Council to run the Brecon Jazz Festival, after the previous promoter, the Hay Festival, pulled out despite a creative turnaround and transformation of Wales’ leading jazz fest.
A new night showcasing singers launched yesterday at Hideaway, the south London jazz club in Streatham.
Wayne Shorter is to leave Verve records for Blue Note records, the label he originally signed to back in 1964.
Ahead of his gig this weekend with Fieldwork at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Vijay Iyer began his all-too-brief two night run yesterday at the Vortex.
Joined by surprise guest singer Randolph Matthews, sounding uncannily like Bobby McFerrin in the vocals department, saxophonist/flautist Rob Hughes recorded his latest album with his quintet live at Pizza Express Jazz Club last night in front of a mellow audience made up of what sounded like a fairly large contingent of smartphone-wielding Italians.
Jazzwise can reveal the upcoming release of the debut album by the brand new Pat Metheny Unity Band.
A busy schedule at the Pizza Express Jazz Club this June sees Anglo-American ‘supergroup’ The Impossible Gentlemen set to take up an explosive four-night residency at the Dean Street club on 25-28 June.
As part of the fiftieth year celebrations at Fairfield Halls in Croydon photographer Frazer Ashford, who took pictures at Fairfield mostly in the 1970s and 80s, is exhibiting some vintage shots from his archive at the Croydon venue.
The Verve UK office is to close, Universal has confirmed.
With the Cheltenham Jazz Festival getting underway next week at its new location in Montpellier Gardens, the organisers have announced a vibrant Free Stage programme, including a Verve Records Showcase series and the finals of the Yamaha Jazz Experience, as well as a jazz-related movie programme at an on-site boutique cinema, the Screening Rooms.
