Pianist Darius Brubeck (pictured) brings his Kind of Brubeck tribute to the music of his late father, Dave Brubeck, to St George’s, Bristol on 7 November as part of the concert hall’s vibrant autumn programme that started on 16 October with a David Murray Quartet show.
The second annual Bristol International Jazz & Blues Festival is set to run from 6-9 March 2014, returning after its successful inaugural run this year that saw a three busy days and nights at the city’s Colston Hall as swathes of jazz bands took over the main auditorium and free stage foyer space.
The Skopje Jazz Festival in Macedonia enjoyed a glorious period of sunny weather for it’s 32nd outing.
The winners of this year’s Scottish Jazz Awards were announced last night at a glitzy ceremony at the Dirty Martini club in Le Monde on George Street, Edinburgh.
Drummer, composer and bandleader Ronald Shannon Jackson, one of the leading avant-garde jazz and free funk players, died of leukemia on 19 October at his home in Fort Worth, Texas aged 73.
Sons of Kemet, the hotly tipped group led by saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, won the Best Jazz Act at the 18th annual MOBO Awards held at the SSE Hydro Arena, Glasgow on 19 October.
Pianist and composer Andrea Vicari’s Jazz ExTemporé is launching its second album, East and West, at the 606 Club on 22 October, before going on a week’s UK tour.
One among many distinguished Scottish-born jazz musicians, tenor-saxophonist Tommy Whittle came south when only sixteen, first joining a palais band in Gillingham and then branching out via stints with Lew Stone, Carl Barriteau and Harry Hayes before joining the mighty Ted Heath orchestra at just 20 years of age.
The very idea of taking a request might not sit well with the ‘serious’ artist who eschews a mission to entertain.
Lauderdale House, the arts venue in Highgate, north London, has announced its autumn jazz programme with a strong line-up featuring some of the UK’s most prominent vocal and instrumental ensembles.
