Film noir is a genre that has attracted many jazz composers and performers over the years and now for the first time, all of the jazz-inspired soundtracks from the 1950s era of film noir are collected together on one exclusively designed, deluxe 5-CD box set.
Hideaway in Streatham, south London, only opened last year but already it’s becoming a fixture on the local scene.
Award-winning saxophonist/MC/composer Soweto Kinch is set to perform a special collaborative concert with students from the Southampton Guildhall on 7 April called The Jazz Ticket.
This year’s Gateshead Jazz Festival gets underway tomorrow with a packed programme of jazz in the marvellous Sage concert hall venue over the weekend.
Yesterday in a live link-up from Ronnie Scott’s in London direct to the US press launch of the Rochester Jazz Festival details were announced of the latest British jazz to be featured at the festival.
The Glasgow Jazz Festival, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary, runs from 29 June to 3 July and while the complete line-up has not yet been announced, a host of big names are already confirmed for Glasgow this summer.
Jazz FM takes a major step forward from today when it starts broadcasting on a nationwide basis on the Digital 1 platform, alongside Classic FM and other leading DAB radio stations.
The Dean Street Pizza Express Jazz Club in London is the venue on Monday night for a night of voice and piano in aid of the Brainstorm charity.
The jazz-loving Boisdale restaurant group, already with two restaurants in Bishopsgate and Belgravia, is about to embark on a new phase with a brand new club in London’s Canary Wharf.
Now in its third year, the Loop Festival returns this evening with a packed programme of gigs through to Saturday.
