Anarchic Leeds-based jazz-skronk merchants trioVD (pictured) are set to return this autumn with a febrile new EP entitled X, that takes ironic inspiration from the overarching cultural phenomenon that is The X-Factor.
Wynton Marsalis is 50 later this month and tonight in New York’s Jazz At Lincoln Center there is a special 50th Birthday Celebration concert with Wynton, the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra and guests including Marcus Roberts, Jared Grimes and Gregory Porter.
Bridlington in Yorkshire hosts Musicport next month with the three-day festival taking place at the Spa venue on South Marine Drive in the East Riding seaside town.
The Polyamory Sound Festival, according to the organisers, is a Europe-wide festival for “experimental and genre-crossing music” and last year took place in Berlin, Vienna and Cologne.
The Christian Wallumrød Ensemble embark on a short tour next week beginning at the Sage in Gateshead on Thursday week, 20 October.
Fresh from picking up a MOBO in Glasgow just three days earlier as half of the best jazz act-winning Kairos 4tet, bassist Jasper Høiby and pianist Ivo Neame joined drummer Anton Eger thus completing the line-up of Phronesis who opened for the Wayne Shorter Quartet concert at the Barbican last night.
Dave Douglas is the new international jazz artist in residence at the Royal Academy of Music.
A bass player’s bass player for the best part of three decades Pino Palladino has carved an enviable niche, latterly with The Who, John Mayer, Adele and a huge swathe of hip hop and R&B stars, not to mention his own jazz fusion trio, as the go-to guy for that perfect pocket groove.
At the SECC in Glasgow tonight Kairos 4tet won the MOBO for best jazz act.
The Musicians Benevolent Fund has begun its 2011 Peter Whittingham Jazz Award application period which is now open for applications from solo jazz musicians and ensembles who are invited to apply.
