It was just two years ago that revered Wolverhampton-born bassist Dave Holland scooped top honours in the 2008 Jazzwise Albums Of The Year New Releases poll coming out on top with his supercharged sextet offering Pass It On.
Nominations for the Grammys have been announced and while the jazz categories, may not be quite the Cinderellas of the night (think, erm, new age), most prominence of course is given to the big R&B, hip hop and rock attention-grabbers on what is the most important night of the year for the US record industry.
The expression “What goes around… comes around” might not have been in the lexicon of 18th century poet William Blake but the sentiment certainly applies with the application of his work on Chamber Music Society.
James Hamilton was the winner of the Contemporary Jazz Composition award at the British Composer Awards 2010 announced yesterday for his big band composition ‘The Causeway Suite.
Continuing with the countdown of the Jazzwise albums of the year, pick up the Dec/Jan issue out now in your local shop or buy online at jazzwise.
All the Jazzwise albums of the year and gigs of the year are included in the December/January issue.
Intense young women, elaborately goateed blokes sporting the odd cap, old gents who might otherwise be out walking the dog or tucking into a real ale by a roaring fire, yes, they were all out in force last night despite the tube strike and the inevitably described “Arctic” conditions even ahead of today’s snow for The Thing.
All the Jazzwise albums of the year and gigs of the year are included in the December/January issue.
It was an apt coincidence that just as the swirling arctic winds that had been sweeping down Oslo’s streets a few days before and were now chilling the pavements in London too, that Nordic power-prog jazz trio Elephant9 should show up to heat up the stage of the Borderline for their UK debut earlier this week.
“Where on earth are Taraf de Haïdouks when you need them?” you could almost hear Johnny Depp cry if he had been in the audience, after Nicolas Simion took to the stage last night at the Jazz Café for the first time in London after a brief foray in Plymouth, earlier in the week.
