Jazz breaking news: It's only just begun: Josh Arcoleo dazzles at the launch of his debut record
- Thursday, February 9, 2012
Sometimes it's just so natural.
Sometimes it's just so natural.
It’s been a rollercoaster week for the Doncaster jazz scene following the decision of the town’s council to cease funding of the Doncaster Youth Jazz Association.
Zoe Rahman played to a sold out Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho last night for the first of two gigs dedicated to the launch of her fifth album, Kindred Spirits.
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra tour the music of Weather Report later this month joined by Peter Erskine, a former member of the highly influential band that came to be synonymous with jazz-rock in the 1970s and 80s.
The BBC Four television channel is planning a jazz weekend later this month with a special raft of programming that includes documentaries about Sonny Rollins and Barbara Thompson among its highlights.
Touring Kindred Spirits, pianist Zoe Rahman, who also holds down the piano chair in Courtney Pine’s high flying Europa band, continues her tour tonight in Sheffield, a gig which has just sold out, following the January release of the album which is regarded by many as her best to date.
At a mere 21 years old, Emma Smith has a musical career and performance experience that must be the envy of her peers.
Triggering the new season at Turner Sims in Southampton will be guitarist Vieux Farka Touré, son of the late, great Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré.
This year’s Bath International Music Festival will be the last to have artistic director Joanna MacGregor at the helm.
Marylebone’s Cockpit theatre saw the launch last night of Jazz in the Round, the first in a new monthly club night series featuring cutting edge jazz and improv, curated by broadcaster Jez Nelson.