If you’re out and about in central London then there’s just time to get down to the South Bank Centre where there’s a great chance to catch Get the Blessing perform in the intimate setting of the Front Room for Friday Tonic.
Interesting melodies and well-crafted solos over a swinging organ-and-drums rhythm section quickly warmed up the Hideaway audience on a chilly winter evening last Friday.
Avant jazz-funk band WorldService Project are joined by ReDiViDeR on the latest Match and Fuse tour at the Vortex in London tomorrow night (Friday 19 Jan).
The Gil Evans Season in Birmingham is the first opportunity to get a handle on how contemporary bandleaders and composers are dealing with the legacy of Gil Evans, the composer and arranger forever known for his collaborations with Miles Davis, in this the centenary year of Evans' birth.
Clearly feeling an affinity with London, a city where her career was kick started in the 1980s, Carmen Lundy returned to the capital and Ronnie Scott’s last night with her trio launching brand new album Changes.
Montauk Variations, a new solo piano/cello album by Matthew Bourne, former enfant terrible and chief inspiration of the most creative end of the new Leeds avant jazz and improv scene, is to be released by Leaf next month the label has confirmed.
This year’s Parliamentary Jazz Awards will take place on 16 May at the House of Commons and voting is now open online for the public to cast their choices across the designated categories.
Bill Frisell’s Beautiful Dreamers, the Marcus Miller Band, the Chris Potter Tentet and Lighthouse (Simcock/Garland/Sirkis) are among the first headlining names to be announced for this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival which runs from Wednesday 2 to Monday 7 May, the Spring Bank Holiday.
It’s all points north for Carmen Lundy and Gannets as the influential jazz singer and free improv outfit prepare to play Band on the Wall in Manchester.
An incantatory rolling on the tongue of the word ‘Blue’, that most suitable Joni Mitchell colour, and some declarative vocal lines of both expressive joy and self deprecation, were all part of how Ian Shaw accompanying himself at the piano began his series of gigs this week last night at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in London during his latest high profile residency.
