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Albums of the year Number 1: Phronesis - Alive

Friday, December 10, 2010

Not since 2007, when Empirical hit the top spot, has a young British band caused such a stir among Jazzwise scribes.

Jazz breaking news: James Moody Dies After Brave Fight Against Cancer

Friday, December 10, 2010

The saxophonist, flautist and bandleader James Moody, whose 1949 improvisation on the McHugh / Fields’ song ‘I’m In The Mood For Love’, to became immortally known as ‘Moody’s Mood For Love’, died yesterday in San Diego, California at the age of 85.

Jazz breaking news: Jazz FM And Henry Armburg Jennings Help Spread Swinging Christmas Spirit

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Jazz FM and Scottish investment group Aberdeen Asset Management are teaming up to spread some free Christmas cheer with emerging trumpet star Henry Armburg Jennings for a series of concerts at the Exchange Square in the heart of the city of London.

Albums Of The Year – Number 2: Mirror by Charles Lloyd

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Deeply meditative and tender the Charles Lloyd Quartet showed an unquenchable thirst for striving towards an ideal on Mirror, as Lloyd himself puts it, to face up to personal inadequacies and reach a spiritual space in a spirit of humility – it’s about “falling down and getting up,” he has said.

Jazz breaking news: Scat Attack As Bourne/Davis/Kane Return

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Recorded in Leeds earlier this year and just released on Tony Bevan’s Foghorn Records, Money Notes marks the return of Bourne / Davis / Kane, the free improvising piano trio, that made such an impact two years ago with Lost Something, their Annette Peacock and Monk-flavoured debut outing.

Albums Of The Year – Number 3: Jasmine by Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Keith Jarrett knows how to keep a secret.

Jazz breaking news: Led Bib Return With Punchy New Album

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

North-east London band Led Bib, a Mercury nominee last year, return with a brand new album on 7 February called Bring Your Own released through Cuneiform Records.

Albums Of The Year – Number 4: For The Ghosts Within by Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Spectres at the feast in this year’s list of albums of the year and the poetic heart of the list for sure, Robert Wyatt produced one of the biggest surprises of the year in this joint collaboration with Gilad Atzmon and violinist/arranger Ros Stephen plus the Sigamos String Quartet in tow.

Jazz breaking news: Portico Quartet Return To London For A Brace Of Sold-Out Gigs At The ICA

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

There was a mass sit-in at SOAS in protest at tuition fee hikes just days before two of the university college’s more recent alumni, Nick Mulvey and Jack Wylie, of Portico Quartet, took to the stage of the ICA.