ACT records have moved quickly to follow-up their recent solo piano album by Vijay Iyer, the pianist on everyone’s lips last year, with new album Tirtha due to be released in the spring.
Brad Mehldau releases his latest album Live in Marciac, a 2-CD and DVD set, on Monday.
The St George’s concert hall venue in Bristol is to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of John Coltrane’s signing to the Impulse label with a series of gigs dubbed Take The Coltrane.
Evan Parker (left) – our very own world renowned circular breathing improv sax master – has been one of the most popular draws at Dalston’s Vortex jazz club in London appearing monthly with a regular trio.
Arts Council England-funded organisation Jazz Services, which provides an important voice and support for UK jazz, has announced that former government whip Bob Blizzard (left), the MP for Waveney in Suffolk until the general election this year, is to be its new chair, taking on the role from John Blandford who has been chair for the last two years.
The much anticipated follow-up to Kurt Elling’s Grammy-winning album Dedicated To You is now confirmed for release in the UK on 7 March, his label Concord Records has confirmed.
Phil Robson has successfully forged relationships over the years with leading US jazz musicians including most notably with his fellow guitarist Wayne Krantz and saxophone legend Dave Liebman.
As curtain calls go Acoustic Ladyland’s final four nights at the Vortex had been cause for both reflection and revelation.
Vijay Iyer returned to the Vortex last night for the third time this year and in many ways he is an ideal artist for the club.
It was as if Paloma Faith had got the pantomime season going in earnest at the Barbican on Friday night, and while Guy Barker was hardly Baron Hardup as he conducted the 40-plus orchestra, Faith could have been Cinderella at times, even sweeping the stage floor later on as she got into her role of a lonely lover singing torch songs.
