Internationally renowned UK saxophonist/composer Tim Garland has reunited the Storms/Nocturnes trio with US vibes maestro Joe Locke and versatile pianist Geoffrey Keezer for a new album and dates in April.
Tommy Smith hits the hard stuff in the spring when his newly formed group Karma release their debut album on 25 April.
You either have to be a glutton for punishingingly cold weather or be suffering severe music festival withdrawal symptoms to head to Oslo in the dark days of February, but whatever your reasons for travelling to by:Larm it's always a bracing showcase of Scandinavia’s brightest and best new musical hopes.
To say that Trichotomy played an intimate set last night at The Cross in Moseley would be an understatement, but those who did attend saw the closest thing to a private performance one could get from this rising Australian trio.
Live music has been on the menu every night since the 1960s at Soho’s Spice of Life, a thriving hub of activity with a carefully scheduled week accommodating as much music with as diverse a selection as possible.
The funeral of drummer Tony Levin who died on 3 February aged 71 takes place later today at the Emstrey Crematorium in Shrewsbury.
Dave Holland’s Overtone Quartet, featuring Chris Potter, Jason Moran and Eric Harland, is one of the high profile groups announced for this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival, which runs from 27 April to 2 May and this year covers two Bank Holidays: the Royal Wedding holiday on 29 April and the normal Spring holiday on 2 May.
Two of the UK’s leading jazz singers are preparing for the release of new albums next month.
One of the leading mainstream and modern jazz-leaning festivals in the country, the Swanage Jazz Festival in Dorset, has announced its programme for this summer’s event.
Forever known for the standard ‘Lullaby of Birdland’ which he wrote in 1952 the British-born pianist George Shearing has died of heart failure at the age of 91.
