Dennis Rollins’ new album The 11th Gate, is now confirmed for release on 11 November, to be released on the Harlem-based label Motéma.
Hadouk trio – doudouk player Didier Malherbe, hajouj bassist Loy Ehrlich and percussionist Steve Shehan – last night at the Vortex returned to London after a well received London Jazz Festival appearance in 2010.
The picturesque setting of Kent’s Quays of Mary’s Island plays host to the 2011 Maritime Jazz Festival that kicks off tonight and runs through until Saturday 24 September.
The Scarborough Jazz Festival begins the day after tomorrow with a focus on French jazz at the three-day event held over the weekend in the north Yorkshire seaside town.
The first ever Highgate Jazz With Soul Festival is to take place this weekend, on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 September, over two floors of Highgate pub The Old Crown in north London.
Ahead of his turning 70 next month Dionisio Jesús Chucho Valdés Rodríguez – known to everyone as Chucho Valdés – is to play London club dates with his group the Afro-Cuban Messengers.
A Bach partita for violin played on a mandolin, Elliott Smith’s ‘Tomorrow Tomorrow’ and some almost obligatory Radiohead were all grist to the mill for Brad Mehldau joined by the Punch Brothers’ Chris Thile at the Wigmore Hall on Friday.
Wynton Marsalis has written the score of Louis, a new silent film inspired by the early life of Louis Armstrong, and released during the celebrations this year marking 110 years since Armstrong's birth in New Orleans.
Next month’s Belfast Festival at Queen’s has jazz-and-beyond highlights that include improv heavyweight piano trio Bourne/Davis/Kane whose debut album Lost Something was critically acclaimed on its release in 2008 (appearing at Black Box on 15 October).
In a surprise and very welcome move at the festival launch in Smithfield this evening the organisers Serious announced that Ornette Coleman is now confirmed as the closing headline act at this year’s London Jazz Festival to appear on 20 November at the Royal Festival Hall.
