Swede Mats Gustafsson and Norwegians Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love – The Thing – are confirmed for the Bridge Hotel in Newcastle on 2 October, presented by Jazz North East and Splinter.
Birmingham’s Harmonic festival, running over four days from Thursday 29 September to Sunday 2 October, launches with trumpeter Sam Wooster’s Husk at a free entry gig from 8pm in the city’s Yardbird jazz club on the opening night.
Mancunian jazz singer Alexander Stewart is the newest kid on the block to explore retro swing and last night launched his debut album All Or Nothing At All at Pizza Express Jazz Club in London’s Soho.
Kairos 4tet, nominated for a jazz act MOBO next month and Dave Stapleton's Catching Sunlight band provided a fascinating contrast on Saturday ahead of Marius Neset's Golden Xplosion later in the evening during the Edition Records-curated triple bill within the four-day Kings Place festival, which came to a conclusion yesterday.
The former head of jazz and founder of the jazz degree course at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the bassist and composer Graham Collier, has died at the age of 74, having passed away, according to reports, on Saturday in Greece.
The Boulevard in Imperial Wharf hosts the annual Imperial Wharf Jazz Festival in London next week on 15 and 17 September.
Free form improvising piano rarely sounded so fine as Matthew Shipp, in a high wire summit with one of the club’s most popular regular performers the great saxophonist and innovator Evan Parker, opened his two-day residency at a packed Vortex.
Set for release in January by Naim Jazz unmastered Neil Cowley Trio tracks heard exclusively by Jazzwise of The Face of Mount Molehill – the band’s fourth album – suggest a substantial shift in direction since their previous album Radio Silence.
Camden venue the Forge has released details of its busy autumn/winter jazz season packed with high profile jazz gigs.
In Bruges at the weekend the first Belgian Jazz Meeting was held, an initiative the organisers declared aimed “to unite the jazz scenes of both parts of the country in one common objective: to firmly put Belgian jazz on the map of Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels and Europe, thus promoting mutual knowledge.
