In a remarkable u-turn the Local Government Association has announced qualified support for the live music bill, which yesterday passed its Committee stage in the House of Commons.
The Doncaster jazz scene in South Yorkshire is facing a bleak future following huge funding cuts threatening the future of the local Doncaster Jazz Association.
The mid-1990s and early-2000s seem a long time ago now.
After an absence of more than two years since their last album Bugs In Amber, Get The Blessing’s new album OC DC is confirmed for release on 5 March featuring the four-piece plus the great Robert Wyatt on some tracks.
Now recognised as one of the most important markers for bringing burgeoning talents to wider recognition this year’s Peter Whittingham Award has been awarded to up and coming jazz-rock group Roller Trio (pictured).
Ahmad Jamal is to release his latest album Blue Moon on 6 February, one of the first major jazz releases of 2012.
What would Derrida have made of the Jazz and Experimental Music From Poland festival that reaches a conclusion tonight with Piotr Kurek and a live electronic set? He, without wishing to be too flippant, would probably have deconstructed the whole notion.
Violinist Nigel Kennedy (pictured) flew over from Poland this week to take part in a marathon all-star musical tribute to Michael Garrick, the veteran jazz pianist, composer and bandleader who died after a sudden heart attack last month aged 78.
It's not out until February but early pre-release listens of the Robert Glasper Experiment’s new Black Radio album suggest a major shift by the very talented pianist, keyboards player and composer.
The Ellingtonian aura spreads very wide and far but few can truly claim to have been encouraged in the early part of their career by Ellington himself, inspired by the master, then taking the inspiration and utterly transforming it into another sphere entirely shaped by the ancient sounds and sometimes tragic face of the recent history of South Africa.
