Arun Ghosh got Jazzwise’s 15th anniversary festival, Jazzwise to the Power of 15, off to a rip-roaring start last night at Ronnie Scott’s with a bravura display of Indo-jazz delivered with the energy and excitement of a member of the new generation of Brit-Jazz talent currently making waves across Europe.
Part of the Gershwin 75 festival Soweto Kinch is to appear tomorrow with the University of Southampton’s Progression Ensemble in a special presentation called Gershwin Re:mixed.
Blue Touch Paper debuted at the weekend, a new band put together by composer and keyboardist Colin Towns.
With some shows already sold out for next week’s Jazzwise to the Power of 15 festival at Ronnie Scott’s, tickets are going fast for what promises to be an incendiary Tuesday double bill of Empirical and cutting edge trio Michael Wollny’s [em].
Cheltenham Jazz Festival have just announced that iconic singer/keyboardist Steve Winwood will open this year’s festival on Wednesday 2 May appearing in the new Big Top venue.
On a moon-lit evening in Hoxton with little fanfare, a decent crowd gathered at Charlie Wright's for the first appearance in London in over a year of the Marcus Strickland Quartet.
A new film called A Thousand Kisses Deep, starring Jodie Whittaker, Emilia Fox, David Warner, and Dougray Scott, is to be released in cinemas in June, Goldcrest Films have confirmed.
It’s less than a week to go to Jazzwise To The Power of 15, which begins on Monday night at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in London.
While a meteor flashed across the skies of England at the weekend a “fire in the sky” of a different dimension entirely was well underway at the Purcell Room, where the Nu Civilisaton Orchestra presented Firebird, a Stravinsky-Parker Sound Clash.
Jan Garbarek, who turns 65 tomorrow, has every claim to be the greatest European jazz musician since Django Reinhardt.
