Singer Sarah Gillespie’s anti-war song 'The War on Trevor', a 15-minute piece based partly on Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn is launched next month at Ronnie Scott’s on 3-4 April, when Gillespie appears in a double bill with the mighty Get The Blessing.
Stamford Street jazz club Blue Train, in Southwark, has closed, just months after its ill-starred launch.
Flashmob opened the second Jazz in the Round triple bill last night at the Cockpit theatre in London’s Marylebone.
Up-and-coming jazz singer Orla Murphy launches her second album Wonderous Visions in the Lounge of the Leicester Square Theatre in London next week.
Gregory Porter and the Kit Downes / Seb Rochford duo are among the new names added to the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, which this year undergoes a major facelift, with a new outdoor location and several new covered venues.
After two successful years the Mostly Jazz festival returns to Moseley Park in Birmingham this summer as the Mostly Jazz, Funk & Soul festival.
Actor Gabriel Byrne is a special guest on award winning singer Christine Tobin’s new album Sailing to Byzantium reading ‘The Lake isle of Innisfree’, ‘The Pity of Love’ and ‘White Birds’, all poems by WB Yeats.
Jazzwise has now finalised the line-up for its Jazzwise To The Power of 15 anniversary week at Ronnie Scott’s club, that runs from 12-17 March, with fast rising German piano star Michael Wollny’s [em] trio (left), being added to the line-up that includes Ron Carter’s Foursight with the Dear Miles project, the Chris Potter Quartet, Troyka with the Royal Academy of Music Big Band, the Arun Ghosh Quintet and Empirical.
A new concert series at London’s Vortex club called Vortex Last Sunday is to present a run of live gigs to be recorded this summer for digital broadcast.
We have three pairs of tickets available for Jazzwise readers to hear the remarkable Storms/Nocturnes at the Purcell Room in London on 12 March.
